Jun 15, 2014
WANDERING JEW: THE SHABBATH VARIATIONS
I have been fortunate enough to be traveling on an irregularly irregular basis all around the world since 1993, and since 2002 fairly regularly to South East Asia. I have…
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.
Apr 15, 2014
DO THEY SERVE MATZOH ON AMERICAN AIRLINES? LAMENT FOR A MISSED SEDER BY A JEW WHO WANDERED A BIT TOO MUCH
One of the earliest lines of Spanish Poetry that made me want to learn the tongue of Cervantes, was, read on my way from school in Sweden to home in…
Mar 15, 2014
NAT IN THE SYNAGOGUE AT RANGOON, BURMA
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 UNEXPECTED PLEASURES OF AN ENCOUNTER AT THE SYNGAGOUE IN RANGOON! Burma, or its modern name, Myanmar, had offered welcome to Iraqi…
Jan 15, 2014
SYMBOLIC HEALING AMONG RAPA NUI
SYMBOLIC HEALING WHAT CAN WE LEARN IN RAPA NUI One of the pleasures of being trained as a Medical Anthropologist is to absorb with the vision you have been taught…
Dec 15, 2013
CUBA MI ISLA RICA AND MY CONNECTION TO THE UNIVERSE
There is no greater sorrow than recalling happy times when we are sad Dante Thinking about Cuba, for me is never sad, but the powerful forces that draw me to…
Sep 15, 2013
MAY YOU BE INSCRIBED IN THE BOOK OF LIFE IN MIAMI, COCHIN, KINGSTON, MONTEVIDEO, RANGOON, MELBOURNE, LA HABANA..LA SHANAH TOVAH 5774
Today is the First Day of September 2013 and in a few days time we would welcome the Jewish New Year. I hope to be in Brussels on Rosh Hashanah…
Aug 15, 2013
CUBA IN MY HEART: AN INCREDIBLE ENCOUNTER AT ISTANBUL AIRPORT
CUBA IN MY HEART INCREDIBLE ENCOUNTER AT TK ICP LOUNGE AT ISTANBUL AIRPORT American Indians say, Things happen for Reason. There are no coincidences, it is just we cannot understand…
Apr 15, 2013
AN ENDOCRINOLOGIST IN SOUTH TEXAS: FROM INDIANS TO INDIANS
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE The alarm went off at 0600 AM, I had already packed my bags, so it was easy to be ready to leave…
Jan 15, 2013
PATIENT CENTERED PEER EDUCATION: AMONG THE KICKAPOO/KIKAPU OF TEXAS/MEXICO
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE PATIENT CENTERED PEER EDUCATION AND HEALTH CARE…AMONG THE KICKAPOO/KIKAPU OF TEXAS/MEXICO The 10-seater van was fairly new, had Mexican License plates. Mena…
Jan 15, 2013
RITUALS AND THE DISAPPEARANCE OF LIMINALITY : JANUARY 2013
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE It was on the first few days of a fresh New Year in la Habana, when someone introduced me to Augusto Monterroso…
Dec 15, 2012
I AM GOING TO BOGOR TO EXERCISE!
I had received a letter from my good friend, the humble man of Bogor, Pak Joe. He wanted me to come to Indonesia, and prepare and present with him a…
Nov 15, 2012
A DIPLOMAT GOES HOME TO CUBA
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE A DIPLOMAT GOES HOME TO CUBA I was the first one to board the short AA flight to Havana in Miami. As…
Nov 15, 2012
MALAYSIA IN CUBA, THANK YOU AMBASSADOR JOJIE SAMUEL
MALAYSIA IN CUBA I have been very lucky to meet some excellent people in Malaysia, the best among them being MCY whom I had met serendipitously in 2008. She introduced…
Oct 15, 2012
CONVIVIALITY… BRANDS.. AND FRIENDSHIP.. ENJOY
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE KNOW YOUR BRAND.. Yellow Tail is without doubt the most popular Australian brand of wine known in the USA and UK.. But…
Oct 15, 2012
AUNG SAN SUU KYI IN MIAMI
Miami is not the place one expects to say a large mural of Aung San Suu Kyi. The majority of people in Miami are either Immigrants or children of Immigrants,…
Sep 15, 2012
If you are tired of the BRITISH MUSEUM, your curiosity has fallen dormant
The rain had been falling, as forecast and when it seemed to stop, i bought an umbrella and walked towards the British Museum. Many of the streets are familiar or…
Sep 15, 2012
AUGUST A MONTH OF GOOD NEWS FROM NORTH EAST WEST SOUTH
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE A Good Month of News that warms the heart.. I left IAH on 1 August 2012 on Qatar Airways to DOHA and…
Sep 15, 2012
GOOD TO BE A CUBAN TODAY
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE To His Excellency Pedro Monzon, Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba to the Commonwealth of Australia Dear Pedro: It is I, Sudha,…