Jan 15, 2019
MALAYSIA MY SECOND HOME AND THE DOUBLE TREE HOTELS THAT MAKE IT SO
I left Siem Reap with a heavy heart after having had a wonderful end of the year sojourn there. The minute the flight landed in Kuala Lumpur my mood changed…
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.
Jan 15, 2019
I AM DOING MY LITTLE BIT FOR CUBA
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Jan 15, 2019
MADE HOMELESS BY TRAVEL: WHAT DO YOU DO FOR A LIVING
I am grateful whoever the person was, for introducing me to Moritz Thomsen, a beautiful soul, a peace corps volunteer in the 1960s, trying hard to make the life of…
Dec 15, 2018
FOOD INSECURITY AND PRE DIABETES .. YET ANOTHER SOCIAL CONNECTION FOR INCREASING INCIDENCE OF DIABETEES
I have always maintained that DIABETES type 2 i a social disease and its ravenous increase world wide is the confirmation of the social influences on its prevalence. I am…
Dec 15, 2018
JOURNEY TO THE INDIANS
I was not prepared for this weather -4 C .. I had left the balmy Havana streets and the parque and my good friends and I arrived at Omaha Airport…
Nov 15, 2018
FLYING AMERICAN AIRLINES : LOYALTY STILL MATTERS
I used to be a loyal Delta Airlines flier and when they changed their Frequent Flier programme, I switched to United Airlines and when they devalued their programme switched to…
Nov 15, 2018
THE MOVEABLE FEAST THAT IS HAVANA
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Nov 15, 2018
2018 A GOOD YEAR OF TRAVELS AMERICAS EUROPE MIDDLE EAST ASIA
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Nov 15, 2018
I AM IN LOVE WITH ………QATAR AIRWAYS
My first flight with Qatar Airways was in February 2014, I think: IAH DOH CGK DOH BRU. Since then I have made every attempt to fly QR Qatar Airways when…
Nov 15, 2018
HOW INDIA SAVED MY BURMESE BROTHER KO MMMT
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Nov 15, 2018
A GREAT HONOUR TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE MEMORY OF THE GREATEST ADMIRAL OF THE SEVEN SEAS CHENG HO/ZHENG HE
I cannot remember when I first heard about Cheng HO, the greatest navigator who travelled the realms of the Ming dynasty over the course of many journeys, as far as…
Oct 15, 2018
QATAR AIRWAYS: THE BEST ALL AROUND SERVICE AND MY FAVOURITE AIRLINE
When I left my home in La Habana, Cuba for Miami, the day before I was to take QR 778 to Doha, I was already full of anticipation, as is…
Oct 15, 2018
CAN AMERICA COMBAT OBESITY? LOOK AT THIS AIRPORT FOOD ..LEAVING MIAMI
I am an Endocrinologist, a person who studies why people put on weight, among other metabolic dysfunctions of the body. I am also an Anthropologist, interested in the influences of…
Oct 15, 2018
PHOTOS OF LIFE IN HAVANA: A PHOTO ESSAY
I am spending a few hours in MIAMI, after having arrived from Havana (left the island with a heavy heart, as usual) and then beginning an exciting Journey to the…
Oct 15, 2018
FALLING IN LOVE WITH CUBA
People fall in love with Cubans, Cubanas or Cubanos, pero, but you have fallen in love with Cuba! said my Cuban mother many years ago. Occasionally in the olden days,…
Sep 15, 2018
TRAVELLING QATAR AIRWAYS IS AN UNENDING PLEASURE
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Sep 15, 2018
SHANAH TOVAH TO THE JEWS OF INDIA AND IRAN … MAY ALL OF US BE UNITED SOON
I have nurtured a love for smaller jewish communities around the world ever since I became aware of them and was able to visit them. Currently I live in an…
Sep 15, 2018
GOOD WISHES FOR A PROSPEROUS AND CONTENT 5779
GREETINGS FROM ISRAEL. SHANAH TOVAH TIKKETEVU. It is so nice, my first ever time, that I am in the Land of Israel for the Jewish New Year I came across…