Jul 15, 2018
HOW TO BE A MEANINGFUL FREQUENT FLIER, LEAVING NOTHING BUT FOOTPRINTS BEHIND
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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.
Jul 15, 2018
TEM SAUDADE POR TUDO… SWEET SENSATION OF DEPARTURE FROM MIAMI
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Jul 15, 2018
THE INCREDIBLE COINCIDENCE OF BEING CUBAN
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Jul 15, 2018
THINGS ARE NOT WHAT THEY APPEAR TO BE
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May 15, 2018
ONE FREQUENT FLIER AND HIS LOUNGES
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May 15, 2018
LOVE YOUR LIFE AND LET LIFE LOVE YOU
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Apr 15, 2018
DO I TAKE VITAMIN OR NUTRITION SUPPLEMENTS? NO
I am an Endocrinologist, a physician specializing in the Metabolism of the body, about the balance of various hormones is of interest to me. Very early on in my training,…
Apr 15, 2018
CUBANS WANT CAPITALISM AND THE AMERICANS WANT DEMOCRACY: NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET
The pundits on this side of the Gulf pontificate about democracy in the island of Cuba, make grandiose pronouncements (remember, The Final Hour of Castro, a book published in the…
Apr 15, 2018
FORT COCHIN A PLACE TO STAY PUT WHEN YOU VISIT KERALA INDIA
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Apr 15, 2018
Tourist Advice: Thank you for not coming
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Mar 15, 2018
MEETING A REMARKABLE INDIAN AT MY FAVOURITE HOTEL IN FORT COCHIN :BRISTOW LIGHTHOUSE HOTEL
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Mar 15, 2018
JOAN WILLIAMS A WELL KNOWN JAMAICAN PERSONALITY REFLECTS ON RELAY FOR LIFE: A CANCER AWARENESS RAISING EVENT IN WHICH MY SISTER JACKIE AND HER HUSBAND JOSPEH ARE DEEPLY INVOLVED
Cancer is no longer a death sentence Dr. Grace Wang (L) poses with six-time survivor Jackie On Saturday 10th March, I got a great opportunity to see close up the…
Mar 15, 2018
LAMENTO SOCIALISTA OF THE CUBANS IN CUBA
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Mar 15, 2018
First Meal in La Habana Shabbat Shalom
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Mar 15, 2018
Tumultuous arrival in La Habana
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Feb 15, 2018
CUBA IS NEVER FAR AWAY IN COCHIN
When I tell people in this town that I live in Havana, Cuba, a smile of recognition cover their faces. Che Castro Cuba are in the mind sets of most…
Nov 15, 2017
GOOD DEEDS HAVE A LONG MEMORY: THINGS ALWAYS HAPPEN FOR A REASON
It is a Sunday afternoon, I arrived at Miami airport as usual a little earlier to enjoy the ambience of being in the liminal world of travel and enjoy the…
Nov 15, 2017
SHABBAT SHALOM FROM A PARQUE NEAR MY HOUSE IN VEDADO, LA HABANA, CUBA
It is 5 pm on this Friday evening, 10 November 2017. The sun has eased its strength and squalls and the rain seemed to have left for elsewhere. I am…