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.
Normally my friend and taxista, Yodel, picks me up in a 1958 Chevrolet. This time he surprised me on this very well kempt 1949 Oldsmobile.. remainders/reminders of a glory past..…
I have nurtured a love for smaller jewish communities around the world ever since I became aware of them and was able to visit them. Currently I live in an…
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…
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,…
0 0 1 645 3680 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 30 8 4317 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE The euphoria of the week in Havana…
0 0 1 794 4531 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 37 10 5315 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE DAILY PREOCCUPATION OF A CUBAN RESIDENT WHERE…
0 0 1 681 3884 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 32 9 4556 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE There was a time when I approached…
0 0 1 599 3417 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 28 8 4008 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE TWO YOUNG MEDICAL DOCTORS FROM MOA IN…
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..…
0 0 1 433 2473 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 20 5 2901 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE --> Jorge Luis Borges More and More…
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…
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…
0 0 1 974 5556 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 46 13 6517 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, ARROGANCE AND ITS TOTAL…
0 0 1 634 3615 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 30 8 4241 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE --> AMAZING SPIRIT WORLD OF AMAZONIA READING…
0 0 1 707 4033 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 33 9 4731 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE --> A VISIT TO A MOSLEM FAMILY…
0 0 1 850 4851 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 40 11 5690 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE FREQUENT FLIERS, WHO ARE THEY? To get…
0 0 1 638 3637 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 30 8 4267 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE --> My sister telephoned to invite me…
0 0 1 272 1553 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 12 3 1822 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE THE INCREDIBLE COINCIDENCE OF BEING CUBAN Things…
