Dec 15, 2009
Christmas Punishment…Houston to Paris on Business First
Christmas Punishment Never before in my life have I lost my appetite completely, but on the evening of the 19th December 2009, I did. What a punishment since I was…
Stories
Field notes from the road
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.Archive into inquiry
These field notes are not only memory. They are the ground from which my new field inquiries begin.
The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
Dec 15, 2009
Kervallon Today Is Boxing Day And I Am
Kervallon Today is Boxing Day and I am at a Breton village, Kervallon. Ker is village in the language, so every time you hear Ker…you can be sure that the…
Dec 15, 2009
French Paradox Explained At Breton
French Paradox Explained at a Breton Village The drive from the seaside Breton village of Quiberon with its holiday festive atmosphere and the shops awaiting the tourists, to the village…
Dec 15, 2009
Kervallon Cuba Connexion How Could Be
Kervallon-Cuba Connexion? How could be a village of population 20, be connected to our beloved island in the Caribbean? Improbable, no? I am not counting my presence here, bringing in…
Nov 15, 2009
A shabbat Gift from Maghreb.. in France
A nice Shabbat Gift in Levallois Friday Night 13 Chesvan 5770 This night I had dinner at Café Louis, a Melbourne kind of café, doting couples out on a date,…
Nov 15, 2009
Good News from Miami.. for my Sister Jackie
My dearest Brothers in Portland, Oregon and the Mischpuchah there & our Israeli Mischpochah in Haifa: Shabbat Shalom. But this Shabbat has a special meaning. We are always looking for…
Nov 15, 2009
Why I am not a member of Face Book or other Social Networks
Electronic Communications and social Networking Internet has been a great blessing for travelers. Since 2002, my world has rotated around Cuba, Miami, Los Indios, Paris 2006, KL 2008, Vietnam, Cambodia…
Nov 15, 2009
Bienvenidos a Miami y Las Playas
What all can happen in a couple of days in Miami? It had been a love at first sight when I arrived in Miami as an undergraduate student, a love…
Nov 15, 2009
Petty Principles of Frequent Flying
Confessions of a Frequent Flier One Pass Platinum Star Alliance AND Air France Flying Blue Gold Skyteam Obsession with small luxuries of International Travel Just a couple of days ago…
Nov 15, 2009
Magic of Saudade and the Cruelty of Reality
I have always enjoyed that sweet sensation of Saudade, possibly the one of the more beloved words that i like in any language. a feeling of impending loss and the…
Nov 15, 2009
For No Special Reason, I was thinking of Mexico..
For some reason, I was thinking of Mexico today..nothing precipitated this nostalgia for a country where I used to travel very often during my student days..Since Yucatan is close to…
Oct 15, 2009
Elegant irreverance of the French
Political collectedness has never bothered the French, the president marries a model who poses nude, the minister of justice has a baby out of wedlock, they refuse to speak English…
Oct 15, 2009
When to drink this poison?
it has been a while since I had drank coca-cola ( I must have been healthy?) btu this morning at Charles de Gaulle Airport- I had, not one, but three…
Oct 15, 2009
A day in the life of an Endocrinologist
Walk over to the school in the morning and chat and check about 26 students. Mainly for their propensity for Insulin Resistance and future Type 2 Diabetes. In between other…
Oct 15, 2009
Hurrah for USA and of course, Hurrah for Australia!
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6pbt5_portrait-delizabeth-blackburn-biolo_creation Elizabeth Blackburn was raised in Tasmania and educated in Melbourne before going to Cambridge to get her PhD. She has been in the uSA since 1988. And she is…
Oct 15, 2009
Welcome to Tijuana.. thus sang ManuChao
WELCOME TO THE USA Global Entry Programme As I have to visit USA on a fairly regular basis,( 13 visits this year to Miami, our Other Cuba) I applied for…
Oct 15, 2009
Barack Obama and Nobel Peace Prize
It was a good news to wake up to.. Barack Obama who in his short tenure has brought so much hope to millions of people around the world and of…
Oct 15, 2009
Eats and Flies Part III October 10, 2009 New York to Paris
EATS AND FLIES PART III 10 OCT 2009 EWR TO CDG CONTINENTAL 757-200 A SHORT FLIGHT FOR AN INTERCONTINENTAL ONE, SIX HOURS AND TWENTY MINUTES Seat 7C. With plenty of…