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.
Malaysia warns Muslims of Valentine's Day 'trap' Muslims make up nearly two-thirds of Malaysia's 28 million population Malaysia stepped up a campaign to stop Muslims celebrating Valentine's Day - labelling…
Today in 2 February 2011 and I am far removed from the Asian Continent but it was good to receive emails from countries with sizeable Chinese populations and also from…
Air France 0636 Boeing 777-300 Paris Charles de Gaulle international airport to Houston International Airport 10 th January 2011 0701 train from Becon les Bruyers in Paris to Gare San…
Cuban Tenderness Cuando me cuentas de tus dias siento nostalgia de que habitemos lugares tan distantes, no poder tenerte mas cerca, para poder pasar mas tiempo juntos, visitarte y que…
THE FOUR DIRECTIONS Happiness Decrease Your Desires Joy in Life Be helpful to others Contentment Be a Hollow Bone through which Spirits would enter the world of Others Be Grateful…
I have a sister, Menacuatucua. Eventhough I do not belong to her tribe (The Traditional Kickapoo who have homes in Eagle Pass, Texas and Nacimiento de los Negros at the…
I was made aware of the value of friendships very early in life, when for various reasons, my own family couldnt be with me (then or later in my life)…
Malaysia in Cuba I have had no desire to get in touch with Malaysian Embassy in the past but with my increasing connection to Malaysia, on a whim, I decided…
Western Medicine is practiced without empathy and understanding of the person, in a totally un-holistic way in all the five countries mentioned. The Cardiologist in Miami was friendly, the Cardiologist…
WHAT 3 EUROS WOULD BUY YOU AT THE FRUIT AND VEGETABLE MARKET IN CUBA 09 NOVEMBER 2010 Three large avacados, two Kg of Bananas, two kilograms of Guava, half a…
Meeting with a Remakable Yogi in Havana, Cuba A line from Pablo Neruda’s poem always sticks in my mind when I am in La Habana, Cuba. In it the poet…
Bienvenidos a Cuba Cuban Hospitality and Cuban sense of Social Responsibility Exactly one month ago, the curator of the National Museum was in Paris and I was proud to show…
Casualidad es no tan Casual It is just you are not intelligent enough to understand it, said my Meskwaki teacher.. We tend to believe that things happen in a random…
I am going into Exile, to use the abused word in MIami among Cuban Immigrants, most of whom since about 1962 have been economic migrants, from Internet. An extremely welcome…
This is one trip that I am happy to pay for, to anticipate and go through the rigorous customs and immigration check and other hassles.. not to mention the paperwork…
Feel very content on this erev Yom Kippur even though I am far away from many of the people who are important to me and also to the Jewish people…
Now that the High Holydays are nearly Over.. time to come back to the pastime of planning trips.. So far in September: Miami to Paris Paris to Miami Miami to…
We all want to be Happy.. is it a sensation of feeling High? a sense of contendment? the rush of acquiring material goods? Are Rich people happier than the Poor?…
