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.
Currently I am in an enviable or unenviable position of calling with increasing frequencies at the cities and airports of Havana, Paris, Miami and Kuala Lumpur. Thus extremely nostalgic for…
WHY MunChing with two Hocank youngsters Today is 10th September 2009. In exactly 11 days, I will leave MIAMI for a long flight to KLIA.. leaving at 5 45 pm…
at the second oldest european settlement in Nebraska? at a Church Hall? PM is a patient of mine, and had impressed me with his curiosity about his medical condition and…
Cuba Narrative 2 Today is 22 nd June 2009 On June 14 th 2005, I was in the lobby of the Hilton Hotel in Hanoi, having requested the receptionist to…
I am sitting at the Lounge at the Houston Airport. I am on my way to Miami and then on to La Habana. I am looking forward to being back…
An Eclectic Day in Paris It is not that often that in a short span of a few hours, you have such a variety of experiences as I had today…
Incessant Attendances at Conferences and Lack of Knowledge Accrual I am a Consultant Endocrinologist to some small Clinics at the Indian Health Services of the United States Public Health System…
True Giving Altruism is giving that which you cannot afford, said my father, once upon a time. I was with an UmonHon Indian friend of mine, at the parking lot…
The Pleasant Long Commute to work among the Los Indios.. How often do you begin your journey to work with a glass of French Champagne? I was inside the Air…
An Unusual Tale of Love in the time of Cyclones, Monks and Masters Myanmar is a mysterious country. Politically speaking, which I rather not do, it has been stuck in…
Paris, France 1st April 2009 Dear Friends The sun is shining brightly outside. It is 5 pm and the temperature is 16 C. (60 F) I see people walking around…
today is 14 Nissan 5769, it is also the birthday of one of our greatest philosophers, Maimonides born in Cordoba and died in Cairo. best known for his treatise: The…
It is one of Life’s greatest pleasures, indeed, when out of the mist of time, where memories hide, one small glimmer of a light comes out, bringing with it fragrances…
When people know that I am associated with native american indains, they usually ask me a slew of questions and i realize that the idea of an american indian is…
It is by the sacrifices you do for another person that you would be judged on the capacity to help that person. I have always done what I wanted, but…
Lonely Roads, Bright Sun and a Blue Sky UmonHon Indian Reservation 13th January 2009 A very sound sleep, after the trouble getting home through 50 km winds playing ballet with…
. The general perception from outside about a visit to Israel, concerns itself with Security, Terrorism, religious and national fanaticism and the brashness of its inhabitants. I was reminded of…
with a Macussi Indian Child in Southern Guyana The world Chocolate is an Indian word..Aztec Xocalatl The journey to the Indians is always arduous.. first of all there is the…
