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.
When asked What would make you happy ? or Healthy, majority of the Millennials replied 1. Money. 2. Fame This study which has been conducted over a 75 year period…
Just a short 50 years after the assassination of CHE Guevara, our world has become without morals, without principles and without justice and mountains of people without inner happiness. Americans…
Thoughts while drinking Cortadito at Ricky’s Bakery in Miami, after a conversation with a friend in Vila Verde in Brasil Even if you have property (house, car and other intangibles)…
In the last 24 hours my Cuban sister has been involved in intense spiritual healing of an unfortunate, by all accounts a well loved lady in Iran. Me and another…
I always had an interest in knowing the history of ancient jewish communities which for various reasons disappear over the course of time. Since the establishment of the Jewish State…
I have had a wonderful trip to France, Israel, Morocco and Tunisia; two developed and two developing areas of the world. I have been lucky enough to visit Marrakech often…
Nearly half the physicians practising in the USA did not think that their patients would benefit from Nutritional Counseling ! These are patients who had consulted these doctors because they…
Yesterday I was enjoying my sunset walk along the Malecon, the seawall which is just few metres away from the flat where I stay in Havana. There were many people…
For Hemingway the Moveable Feast was Paris and for me it is Havana. What makes Havana and for that matter all of Cuba make so special? Its people not only…
An alarm was raised about a possible Hurricane approaching Cuba, so I decided to leave for Miami. There I was sitting at the noisy International Departure terminal of Jose Marti…
I left Havana a couple of days ago, now i am told that many parts of that city are flooded, adding to the misery of survival in these times of…
In CUBA we try to be hospitable to visitors but this one, from the Sahara, Cabo Verde Islands and the Atlantic, a certain Sr. IAN was not welcome. The entire…
Ishmael (are we not brothers? he of ishamael and I of Israel?) suggested this haircuttery very close to Riad58Blu within walking distance of Djema al Fina. It turned out to…
Berbers are good at wood carving and the above plaque caught my attention as I was wandering around the narrow streets near Riad58Blu. I walked in and the old man…
enjoying the organized chaos that is so metaphoric of life, each night i wandered through the souks, giving a salaam here and a shalom there, in this ancient city. I…
I was eager to light the candles tonight, as the sun sunk over a gorgeous horizon lit by the candle that is the Sun being passed over to the other…
The morning was still young, a text message arrives from Kuala Lumpur, do you have time to talk? it said It was KO, the former Malaysian ambassador to Cuba. We…
My introduction to the world of Native American people propitiously began with the traditional tribe of MESKWAKIA and I have to be grateful to them, as I ended up dedicating…
