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.
I am happy to have come to the USA for my post graduate studies in Endocrinology (excellent clinical education at Jackson Memorial Hospital of the University of Miami) but even…
The Sun was setting in Miami. I had been back just over 24 hours ago. Yesterday I left that city of Light and Love. No city in North America comes…
Quiberon lies at the end of a peninsula bearing its name, connected by a thin strip of land to the mainland Brittany and France. The village of Quiberon has a…
I was in Malaga in Andalucia and my destination was Quiberon, Bretagne. I always liked Nantes as a place to change from an intra European flight to the train that…
This has been an unexpected trip and not well prepared trip at all. But every day, unexpected pleasures have come my way. On arriving at the Madrid Airport, after a…
21 december 2021 Winter Solstice Yalda celebrated in Iran Iran is 8 1/2 hours time zones away from Miami. So i was able to enjoy the feasts and getting together…
San Lazaro is a Spirit from the pantheon of Cuban Syncretic Space, he is a Healer, a good Spirit to have on your side during these isolated days of suffering.…
My closest friends in South Florida live 120 km north from where I stay in Miami. The Highway takes you there in less than an hour and half, allowing me…
I am at this large house by myself. Tranquil able to concentrate and to think. also realize who your friends are and who would be there for you Mr Carlos…
What all happens in the course of a day? asked the poet. Each day is an unexpected gift, you may meet someone new, taught my erudite jewish teacher in Melbourne,…
Even though I have a very long association with USA and especially Miami, I have never considered living here nor was I forced to live here. That is, until Covid…
I felt that the year 2019 was an extraordinarily good year for travel . COUNTRIES VISITED IN 2019 MANY TIMES USA CUBA FRANCE MEXICO COLOMBIA BRASIL ARGENTINA URUGUAY CHILE EASTER…
It is incredible when things look gloomy something comes out of nowhere to offer you consolation. I rather be in Cuba but I am in Miami. fortunately I work with…
I have visited various Jewish cemeteries around the world where only memories linger on in the streets where Jewish people lived and died for hundreds of years. Penang, Malaysia Cochin,…
Today has been a lovely day No one to disturb my peace, near and far A nice sensation when one is able to help, the philanthropy of time and knowledge…
When I arrived in MIami to do postgraduate work in Endocrinology, one of my colleagues at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital was a Panamanian Jew by the name of…
CUERNAVACA, MEXICO is so full of longings. No puedo vivir sin amor, laments the alcoholic ex-British consul played by that great actor Albert Finney in Malcolm Lowery's book Under the…
Nice to wake up to a warm message from Mexico. My dear friend and colleague, Dra. Estela had written: Mil felicidades, que te sigas iluminando con tu gran inteligencia, te…
