Aug 15, 2018
LONG JOURNEY FROM MIAMI FLORIDA TO QUIBERON BRITTANY FRANCE
If not for a turn of fate, France would have not been in my worldview. During the time I studied in London, did not have much of a desire to…
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.
Aug 15, 2018
LOVES AND AFFECTIONS IN LA HABANA
Enjoying a quiet moment in my flat before the guests start arriving. It is always good to have my Cuban mother present. I had prepared for a dinner for 7,…
Aug 15, 2018
THE EUPHORIA OF LIVING IN HAVANA, CUBA
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Aug 15, 2018
QUOTIDIAN PREOCCUPATION OF A RESIDENT OF LA HAVANA
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Aug 15, 2018
ARRIVAL AT HAVANA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TERMINAL 3.. BIENVENIDOS
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Aug 15, 2018
TWO NEW MEDICAL GRADUATES FROM MOA VISIT LA HABANA
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Aug 15, 2018
EGO THE CONTROLLER OF OUR AVERSIONS AND ATTACHMENTS AND DESIRES
I still remember that evening very clearly, at the restaurants just across the International bridge from Eagle Pass, Texas..perhaps its name was El Modelo? in Piedras Negras in Coahuila, Mexico..…
Aug 15, 2018
Do not look for them, they look for you. The best is yet to come.
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Aug 15, 2018
FROM BRISTOW BUNGALOW IN FORT COCHIN TO HAMBURG, GERMANY
On my last visit to Fort Cochin, I had met a mother (specialist in Obstetrics and Gynaecology) and a daughter (who would begin her medical studies this autumn). In the…
Aug 15, 2018
FOOD TO BE TASTED IN ITS NATIVE ENVIRONMENT
Whenever I see a LIST of places to visit, hotels to enjoy, or the word BucketList, I think of it as a clue to avoid those places. But not when…
Jul 15, 2018
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, ARROGANCE AND ITS TOTAL DOMINANCE
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Jul 15, 2018
AMAZING SPIRIT WORLD OF AMAZONIA
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Jul 15, 2018
A VISIT TO A MOSLEM FAMILY IN SOUTHERN SRI LANKA
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Jul 15, 2018
HOW TO BE A MEANINGFUL FREQUENT FLIER, LEAVING NOTHING BUT FOOTPRINTS BEHIND
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Jul 15, 2018
HOW THE CHINESE AMERICAN FOOD TURNED ME INTO A PESCO-VEGETARIAN!
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Jul 15, 2018
THE INCREDIBLE COINCIDENCE OF BEING CUBAN
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Jul 15, 2018
ONE GOES TO THE AMAZON FOR THE ESSENCE OF ITS INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
I have just returned from the Colombian Amazon and the best part of the trip was my renewing the spirit of fraternity and solidarity with the Ticuna Indians who inhabit…
Jul 15, 2018
THINGS ARE NOT WHAT THEY APPEAR TO BE
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