Medicine, culture, travel, food, healing, and human stories from my archive. Start with a trail, search for a memory, or move by year.
Roads, meals, clinics, and human encounters.The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
AM ISRAEL CHAI: HOLOCAUST, HUBERMAN AND ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA The clock was turned back one hour. My sleeping pattern had been disrupted by crisscrossing of continents. I woke up at…
TRAVELLING IN AMERICA: ENJOY THE VAGARIES OF CAPITALISM Almost always, my friend the Sage of Sioux City would say, Capitalism rewards the wrong type of person. I am assuming, hopefully…
The Jewish Identity in Diaspora The Economist, published weekly, has to be one of the best brain foods that is published that frequently in the English Language. I have great…
Rick Hansen in Buddha's Brain: p 98 Find Refuge in whatever is a sanctuary and refueling station for you. Potential refuges include people, activities, places, intangible things like reason, a…
Like most western educated Medical Doctors, I was not that interested in the Mind Body Connection in Health while I was a Medical Student, Resident in Internal Medicine and a…
SEATTLE, A FOODIE PARADISE Outside of New York City, in the USA, the major cities have regional emphasis on their cuisine, with a smattering of innovative cuisine. If you go…
CUBA IN MY HEART INCREDIBLE ENCOUNTER AT TK ICP LOUNGE AT ISTANBUL AIRPORT American Indians say, Things happen for Reason. There are no coincidences, it is just we cannot understand…
WHO BROUGHT THE SCRIPT TO SOUTH EAST ASIA: HINDUS OR BUDDHISTS IN OTHER WORDS, WHO IS THE REAL BUMIPUTRA? I was merrily walking along the street in front of the…
the literate man of sioux city surviving in a non literate city the weekend was upon us, the Americans were celebrating the Mexican equivalent of the Day of the Dead,…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE REMARKABLE MEN and WOMEN WHO BLESS YOUR LIFE During the month of April, 2013 I was fortunate to travel to the Indian…
SINCE 2008, I have been very lucky to have been visiting Malaysia on a regular basis and since 2012, Indonesia was added to the regular jaunts over there. This year's…
After weathering the Snow storm while visiting the Lakota Indians, I made up my mind to visit Pak Hendra in Bogor. But as is my routine, I decided to make…
Steve Avery tries to read about 900 pages per month,and as you can see, his literary taste does not fall into any particular genre He notices the substance of the…
AMONG THE LAKOTA OF CHEYENNE RIVER SIOUX TRIBE RESERVATION IN SOUTH DAKOTA I had just arrived at the home of my colleague, when he announced that a Medicine Man from…
Walking along this pleasant city, I was amazed at the similarities (at least superficially) that meets a visitor to the central part of the city. Retired moslem women from Maghreb,…
INVISIBLE HELP FROM THE AMERICAN INDIANS Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Once you have been working with American Indians you begin to notice and understand symbolism of…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE A WEEK IN THE LIFE OF AN ENDOCRINOLOGIST TRIP REPORT: ONE-WEEK IN AMERICA I was still a student in Australia when I…
Normal 0 false false false false EN-US JA X-NONE INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE: NOSTALGIA FOR NAMIBIA When I was reading Anthropology at London, had a chance to visit the San people of…
