Aug 15, 2018
ARRIVAL AT HAVANA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TERMINAL 3.. BIENVENIDOS
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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.
Aug 15, 2018
EGO THE CONTROLLER OF OUR AVERSIONS AND ATTACHMENTS AND DESIRES
I still remember that evening very clearly, at the restaurants just across the International bridge from Eagle Pass, Texas..perhaps its name was El Modelo? in Piedras Negras in Coahuila, Mexico..…
Aug 15, 2018
Do not look for them, they look for you. The best is yet to come.
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Aug 15, 2018
FROM BRISTOW BUNGALOW IN FORT COCHIN TO HAMBURG, GERMANY
On my last visit to Fort Cochin, I had met a mother (specialist in Obstetrics and Gynaecology) and a daughter (who would begin her medical studies this autumn). In the…
Aug 15, 2018
FOOD TO BE TASTED IN ITS NATIVE ENVIRONMENT
Whenever I see a LIST of places to visit, hotels to enjoy, or the word BucketList, I think of it as a clue to avoid those places. But not when…
Jul 15, 2018
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, ARROGANCE AND ITS TOTAL DOMINANCE
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Jul 15, 2018
HOW THE CHINESE AMERICAN FOOD TURNED ME INTO A PESCO-VEGETARIAN!
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Jun 15, 2018
WHERE DOES DIVERSITY BEGIN IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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May 15, 2018
WHY FRIENDLINESS/FRIENDS MATTER WHEN YOU ARE A FREQUENT TRAVELLER?
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May 15, 2018
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO COLOMBO
I was in the Lounge, empty at that hour of the day and wanted to try the two wines on offer. I was busy taking photos of the wine and…
Mar 15, 2018
LOWERING OF BLOOD PRESSURE ONE OF ISHA KRIYAS BENEFITS
I had been concerned about the rise in my arterial Blood Pressure in the last few years, I had never suffered from High Blood Pressure or Hypertension but during the…
Mar 15, 2018
Tumultuous arrival in La Habana
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Mar 15, 2018
THE GIFT OF FRIENDSHIP THAT KEEPS ON GIVING: MUNCHING OF KUALA LUMPUR AND SADHGURU
Mun Ching Yong has been a friend of mine for over a decade when we met on an Air Asia Flight to Siem Reap from Kuala Lumpur in February 2008.…
Feb 15, 2018
HAVANA THE ETERNAL AFFECTIONATE AND CONTINUING FEAST
2017 was an excellent year for travel. My world has geographical variations: American Indians in the USA, good friends in Miami, Family in France/Belgium, Cochin in India and KL in…
Dec 15, 2017
GRATEFUL FOR 2017 WITH ITS WONDERFUL JOURNEYS
I am recuperating nicely from the last trip in the tranquility of my sisters home in Miami, while she is away with her family on Caribbean cruise. This last trip…
Dec 15, 2017
MASS CONVERSIONS OF CHRISTIANS INTO JUDAISM : THREE CASE HISTORIES
While there has been historical references of mass conversions to Judaism, they have been extremely rare. All of us are aware of the King of Khuzars/Khazars who converted and his…
Dec 15, 2017
WHY HAPPY NEW YEAR 2018, WHY NOT, GRATEFUL FOR AN EVENTFUL 2017
Some one from Cuba: I am supposed to pretend to be happy at this time of the year! Advertisements from Malaysia to Qatar to Miami all inviting you to have…
Dec 15, 2017
HAPPY HANUKKAH FROM A MUSLIM COUNTRY, MALAYSIA KUALA LUMPUR NIGHT 1
The Muslim and Arab countries of this world turned 900 000 Jews who had lived there long before Islam became the adopted religion of those countries, into refugees. Many of…