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.
DOCTOR AND THE ARTIST YOU MEET THOSE YOU NEED TO MEET Stop looking for them! admonished my Meskwakia teacher, “dr” Brown. You don’t need to search, they will cross your…
Yesterday I was watching a TED talk video from the director of the Harvard Project , which had followed a cohort of people in Boston, including Harvard College students 1938,…
I AM NOTHING. A BEGINNING OF CULTURAL CONFUSION AND LACK OF IDENTITY AND HOW IT IMPACTS HEALTH I have just been to Leticia, in Colombian Amazon, my fourth visit in…
Why are people so nice to me? I asked Alejandra, the lady in charge of the Amazonas BnB where I am staying in Leticia, in Colombian Amazon, just across from…
The sun was setting as I drove into the village where the Blue House is located. One main road and at the end of the main road is the school…
THE CHRONIC STRESS OF POVERTY It is way past 7pm, and I have just returned to the Blue House after a day at a Medical Clinic, in an isolated part…
BUENOS AIRES IN COCHIN I used to feel so elated walking along the streets of Palermo, listening with intent, long faded footsteps of Jorge Luis Borges. BA and its culture…
I was more than happy to be a guest lecturer at the invitationn of the head of the programme at the Sacred Heart College in Cochin. Meeting the Principal of…
If I had travelled the eight hours on an Etihad Airways flight, then taken the train to the centre of town, checked into a Hilton Hotel and then went to…
CROSS CULTURAL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT: ZHENG HE/CHENG HO AND THE ART OF COLLABORATION A good friend of mine is doing a course on Cross Cultural Business Management at a well-known university…
THE EXHILARATION AT FERNANDO BOTERO MUSEUM IN CANDELARIA, BOGOTA… WHICH PART OF OUR BRAIN DOES GET STIMULATED? Bogota has that vague familiarity as one drives through, the ochre colours of…
TENDERNESS WITHOUT BORDERS. Ternura sin Fronteras No puedo vivir sin ternura One cannot live without tenderness Pablo Neruda once wrote Sabre acariciar las neuvas flores por que tu me ensenaste…
LOOKING FORWARD TO MIAMI: BRUSSELS TO MIAMI VIA LONDON JOHANNESBURG ABUDHABI AND SAO PAOLO I have had a long standing love affair with Miami and it is that city in…
TRANSACTIONS OF SYMBOLS: A FREQUENT FLIER STORY I just had a wonderful trip on Etihad Airways, very content, despite it being 15 hours in length. It was good to observe…
BEST THING ABOUT ABU DHABI IS KERALA! And the other foreign workers from Asia I had a 12 hour transit in AUH recently, in a strange and imaginative itinerary, coming…
On entering the Admirals Club at gate 30 at concourse D at Miami International airport, I was greeted by a smile, which I immediately knew to be Cuban! From San…
INTERDENOMINATIONAL VENERATION IN FORT COCHIN, INDIA HARMONY AMONG THE INHABITANTS OF ALL FAITHS For curious reasons, Fort Cochin, the little peninsula jetting into the Backwaters, facing the Arabian sea in…
• The authors of this large retrospective longitudinal cohort study assessed the risk of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) associated with intrauterine exposure to type 2 diabetes and gestational diabetes mellitus.…
