Nov 15, 2012
JEWS AND OBAMA AND HIS RE ELECTION
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE PROUD OF BEING JEWISH AFTER THE AMERICAN ELECTIONS One of the contradictions in American Politics is the way the Jews vote. In…
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.
Nov 15, 2012
TRADITIONAL SOUP OF THE KIKAPU
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE PUMPKIN SOUP WITH CHICKEN: A TRADITIONAL MEAL OF THE KIKAPU My Kikapu sister brings big sized squash from Mexico and with the…
Sep 15, 2012
Mourning for a Good Person: FOMENKO and celebrating his life’s lessons
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE He did not try to adjust to new times, nor did he lament the effects of the Soviet collapse, but he stayed…
Jul 15, 2012
HOW DOES ONE BECOME INTERESTED IN GEOGRAPHY?
HOW DOES ONE BECOME INTERESTED IN GEOGRAPHY? I was a pre-schooler, when my grandfather, olav ha shalom, came into the room with a bagful of sweets and said: these are…
Jul 15, 2012
when one door is Closed, Dont you know the other is open? Bob Marley
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE WHEN ONE DOOR IS CLOSED, DON’T YOU KNOW THE OTHER IS OPEN? Those lyrics from Bob Marley, Philosopher from Jamaica, always held…
Jun 15, 2012
Ashamed of Who you are.. A Texas Tragedy
ASHAMED OF WHO YOU ARE.A Texas Tragedy Maria, a waitress at an elegant function for Doctors at the Hilton Hotel in Houston said: I don't like speaking Spanish. Her English…
Mar 15, 2012
A country eats well and traditionally and is not Fat: the case of Morocco
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE GASTRONOMIC PLEASURES OF SOUTHERN MOROCCO I distinctly remember, handwritten over a small Taco Bar/Resto in Merida, Mexico: To eat well, is not…
Feb 15, 2012
PEER TO PEER CARE OF DIABETES : the excellence in Cambodia
A lot of credit must go to Maurits for his untiring work to show that Type 2 Diabetes can be taken care of at the point of contact between the…
Feb 15, 2012
TRAVEL IS THE SADDEST OF ALL PLEASURES
I am looking out through the large glass window/door to the last vestiges of the last snow flakes,as it very rarely snows in Paris. But the past few days have…
Feb 15, 2012
welcome to Eagle Pass America.. 97% Spanish Speakers
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Welcome to Eagle Pass. Texas and the Hairstylist Olguita, from Mexico and the Pedi/Manicurist Heidi(Phuong) from Soc Trang, Vietnam. When you are…
Feb 15, 2012
HEROES OF OUR TIMES
I left Phnom Penh, Cambodia at around midnight last Friday and I am writing this at around midnight on this Friday, seven days later, in Eagle Pass, Texas, from the…
Dec 15, 2011
ENDANGERED SPECIES this time LANGUAGES
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE ENDANGERED SPECIES THIS TIME LANGUAGES When we think of Endangered Languages, we usually think of isolated tribes in inaccessible regions of the…
Dec 15, 2011
UmonHon to Bretons via Los Cubanos
It has been an unusually mild winter week in the North Eastern Corner of Nebraska. I left at 11 am from the Blue House, while the skies were cloudless and…
Dec 15, 2011
Shabbat Shalom and Happy Hanukkah: It is time to go HOME
On this Friday Night, I am in an Indian Reservation and having visited two tribes on this visit to North America, it is time to go HOME.. But the Lakotas…
Dec 15, 2011
The Parallel Spiritual World: Lessons from the Kickapoo
The Parallel Spiritual World of the Kickapoo When people say, " I am a spiritual person", the meaning of that pronouncement is lost on me. It is others who judge…
Dec 15, 2011
Warm Welcome to San Augustin de Laredo, Fundado en 1755
Bienvenidos a San Augustin de Laredo, fundado 1755 on the banks of Rio Grande. (Rio Bravo). Currently part of the State of Texas and thus United States of America Laredo…
Nov 15, 2011
THANKSGIVING DAY OR INVASION DAY
I have been visiting USA on a regular basis, continuing my long standing association with the Native Indian populations. I try not to spend any of their public holidays there…
Nov 15, 2011
PHILOSOPHICAL COUNSELING IN HAVANA, CUBA
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Fieldwork in Immersion Philosophical Counselling The reality of Cuba is to be experienced and understood and not enjoyed only from the comforts…