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.
Travel is Such a Sad Pleasure The above sentence brings back several sentiments, first of all, on this trip: La Habana-Miami-Los Indios-Doha-Casablanca-Doha-Siem Reap-Kuala Lumpur and now to Quiberon in France…
It’s quite a story. This story may seem unlikely in this era of generalized war between cultures, civilizations, and religions. And I am grateful to British journalist Ben Judah for…
HOW TO CENTRE YOURSELF WHEN YOU ARE TRAVELING OFTEN? Thoughts from DOHA As I entered the Al Mourjan Lounge at Doha International Airport, a young man clad in grey suit…
A HOTEL STAY THAT TURNED ITSELF INTO A VACATION And that mood followed me to Casablanca. I love flying Qatar Airways; it means frequent transits through Doha. Before, I was…
A TALE OF TWO CITIES: IN A MATTER OF HOURS. A GOOD METAPHOR NEW YORK AND DOHA To travel from Havana to Doha, one has to transit either in Miami…
I have never felt unwelcome in this country and I have been coming in and out of the country with certain regularity for more than twenty years. My reason to…
I look forward to my Qatar airways flights. In May, I flew 10 long haul flights back to back with them and in the first two weeks of this month…
I am in Doha to show solidarity with the country, which is facing a diplomatic crisis, forced on them by Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain and Egypt, all I suppose stalwarts…
Frequent Fliers and Mileage Run afficionados would recognize this itinerary and will think nothing of it Doha to Brussels to Doha to Alexandria to Doha No this is not Egypt,…
I love being with the Omaha Indians, some of whom are people I counsel about their health but most of them are my friends. I feel that they have a…
TODAY is 11th May 2017, I am in Room 3401 of the Executive Floor of Double Tree Hotel in Kuala Lumpur. I had come to Kuala Lumpur to find solace…
THE NEW WORLD ORDER HAS ARRIVED AND THE PERSIAN GULF STATES HAVE THEIR VIEW, AND ITS INTERNATIONAL IMPLICATIONS Recently I have been spending short spurts of time in QATAR, mainly…
QATAR AIRWAYS Flight from Doha to Kuala Lumpur 9 May 2017 I like it when they put this calming Quranic verse just before the planes leave the gate. I assume…
QATAR AIRWAYS FLIGHTS 2 AND 3 3 MAY 2017 The check in area for First and Business Class passengers are set aside, and as I was flying First Class to…
TEN CONSECUTIVE FLIGHTS ON QATAR AIRWAYS Flight ONE Miami to Doha Flying time 13 h 45 minutes 777-300 ER attended by Randa, Cairo, Egypt Helena, Kenya, Cabin Manager I am…
The Heat Index was 40 C ie about 104 F with high humidity that made any stroll in this historic city a challenge. As the sun began dipping down, crowds…
It as my good friend Jim Kerr who visiting me in Miami, pondered at my life and said" You are truly homeless but you are Upper Class. So this is…
The heat has been relentless,I was told, so I wanted to make the best of the early morning hours by going by to the backwaters/arabian sea confluence this morning. The…
