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.
I have just left Havana, Cuba after a few very special days with my best friends in Miami. It was delightful, everything went smoothly, considering the impact of the hardship…
HOW TO CENTRE YOURSELF WHEN YOU ARE TRAVELING OFTEN? Thoughts from DOHA As I entered the Al Mourjan Lounge at Doha International Airport, a young man clad in grey suit…
A HOTEL STAY THAT TURNED ITSELF INTO A VACATION And that mood followed me to Casablanca. I love flying Qatar Airways; it means frequent transits through Doha. Before, I was…
A TALE OF TWO CITIES: IN A MATTER OF HOURS. A GOOD METAPHOR NEW YORK AND DOHA To travel from Havana to Doha, one has to transit either in Miami…
I remember the Nobel Prize winner British writer, VS Naipaul saying: when you do not have a project in life, it tends to become boring. I have a chance to…
I have never felt unwelcome in this country and I have been coming in and out of the country with certain regularity for more than twenty years. My reason to…
It is a great pleasure for me to show my favourite country to visiting people. In the last year, I have had multiple visitors including some friends from my university…
WHEN IT COMES TO CUSTOMER SERVICE ON THE GROUND, NO ONE CAN BEAT THE UNITED STATES SERVICE INDUSTRY. I had arrived in the United States from Qatar on the 16…
I look forward to my Qatar airways flights. In May, I flew 10 long haul flights back to back with them and in the first two weeks of this month…
SURPRISING SINGAPORE Singapore usually is in the news when some of its draconian laws are highlighted in the West, much to the horror of the liberated minds. The lack of…
THE NEW WORLD ORDER HAS ARRIVED AND THE PERSIAN GULF STATES HAVE THEIR VIEW, AND ITS INTERNATIONAL IMPLICATIONS Recently I have been spending short spurts of time in QATAR, mainly…
QATAR AIRWAYS Flight from Doha to Kuala Lumpur 9 May 2017 I like it when they put this calming Quranic verse just before the planes leave the gate. I assume…
Imagine it is nearly midnight, you are sitting in the Al Mourjan Business Class Lounge at the Doha Hamad International Airport; the body is beginning to feel tired and there…
QATAR AIRWAYS FLIGHTS 2 AND 3 3 MAY 2017 The check in area for First and Business Class passengers are set aside, and as I was flying First Class to…
TEN CONSECUTIVE FLIGHTS ON QATAR AIRWAYS Flight ONE Miami to Doha Flying time 13 h 45 minutes 777-300 ER attended by Randa, Cairo, Egypt Helena, Kenya, Cabin Manager I am…
It as my good friend Jim Kerr who visiting me in Miami, pondered at my life and said" You are truly homeless but you are Upper Class. So this is…
The heat has been relentless,I was told, so I wanted to make the best of the early morning hours by going by to the backwaters/arabian sea confluence this morning. The…
A WONDERFUL WELCOME TO MALAYSIA I had left Miami early in the morning and with connections arrived at the Singapore International (actually Singapore cannot have domestic flights since it is…
