Oct 15, 2015
HOW MUCH DO CUBANS EARN PER MONTH?
HOW MUCH DO CUBANS EARN? This is a question often asked of me, and over the years, representing Cuba, in an unofficial capacity as its roving ambassador, self-described of course,…
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.
Sep 15, 2015
WHY ARE PEOPLE SO KIND TO ME? AN EREV YOM KIPPUR REFLECTION
Why are people so nice to me? I asked Alejandra, the lady in charge of the Amazonas BnB where I am staying in Leticia, in Colombian Amazon, just across from…
Sep 15, 2015
FRIENDSHIP OVER TIME AND DISTANCE
FRIENDSHIP OVER TIME AND DISTANCE While I was a post graduate student at Jackson Memorial Hospital of the University of Miami, the southern cone of the Americas was always within…
Sep 15, 2015
THE CHRONIC STRESS OF POVERTY
THE CHRONIC STRESS OF POVERTY It is way past 7pm, and I have just returned to the Blue House after a day at a Medical Clinic, in an isolated part…
Sep 15, 2015
NINE DAYS WITH ETIHAD AIRWAYS: BRASIL, ABU DHABI, SOUTH AFRICA, INDIA, BELGIUM
I am grateful for being able to travel more often, due to my unconventional lifestyle. I had always wanted to travel, and still maintain that the desire to travel and…
Sep 15, 2015
BUENOS AIRES IN COCHIN
BUENOS AIRES IN COCHIN I used to feel so elated walking along the streets of Palermo, listening with intent, long faded footsteps of Jorge Luis Borges. BA and its culture…
Sep 15, 2015
PRESENTATION TO THE FINAL YEAR B.COM STUDENTS IN TOURISM AT THEVARA, COCHIN, INDIA AUGUST 2015
I was more than happy to be a guest lecturer at the invitationn of the head of the programme at the Sacred Heart College in Cochin. Meeting the Principal of…
Aug 15, 2015
FOOD, WINE AND GOOD CONVERSATION: A JEWISH FAMILY IN AFRICA
If I had travelled the eight hours on an Etihad Airways flight, then taken the train to the centre of town, checked into a Hilton Hotel and then went to…
Aug 15, 2015
CROSS CULTURAL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT: THE PHILOSOPHY OF ZHENG HE/CHENG HO
CROSS CULTURAL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT: ZHENG HE/CHENG HO AND THE ART OF COLLABORATION A good friend of mine is doing a course on Cross Cultural Business Management at a well-known university…
Aug 15, 2015
CUBAN HUMANITARIAN MEDICINE IN ACTION
HOW TO BE A PROUD CUBAN LIVE A DAY LIKE TODAY IN THE AMAZONAS I was supposed to go to Nazareth, along the Amazon River, to visit a TICUNA Indian…
Aug 15, 2015
EL INDIO IN MEXICO: A CASE OF DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP
EL INDIO IN MEXICO: A CASE OF DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP We hear about the importance of doctor-patient relationship but we don’t hear about the extraordinary relationships between Doctors and Patients. I…
Jul 15, 2015
ROMANCE IN THE TIME OF THE MONSOON
Romance in the time of the Monsoon How can I not think of Gabo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, when I am wandering around this lovely small town of Fort Cochin? I…
Jul 15, 2015
THE LAST JEW OF COCHIN
THE LAST JEW OF COCHIN Elias Josephai When and if this gentleman goes to Israel to join his children, the last of any Jewish lived in knowledge and history would…
Jul 15, 2015
THE CHAUFFEUR WITH A BIG SOUL : ATMANE THE FRENCH ALGERIEN AMAZEGH
he was dressed impeccably, waiting for me at 17 boulevard vaugirard, the address of the Montparnasse Station in Paris. His car was clean and shiny. He looked me as I…
Jun 15, 2015
A NEW ROUTE TO FREEDOM? DARIEN GAP?
A NEW ROUTE TO FREEDOM? HAVANA TO QUITO BY AIR, TO COLOMBIA BY LAND, ON TO DARIEN GAP OR SEA FROM TURBO, COLOMBIA TO PANAMA, OVERLAND TO MEXICO AND APPLY…
Jun 15, 2015
LOOKING FORWARD TO MIAMI: BRUSSELS TO MIAMI VIA LONDON JOHANNESBURG ABUDHABI AND SAO PAOLO
LOOKING FORWARD TO MIAMI: BRUSSELS TO MIAMI VIA LONDON JOHANNESBURG ABUDHABI AND SAO PAOLO I have had a long standing love affair with Miami and it is that city in…
Jun 15, 2015
TRANSACTIONS OF SYMBOLS: A FREQUENT FLIER STORY
TRANSACTIONS OF SYMBOLS: A FREQUENT FLIER STORY I just had a wonderful trip on Etihad Airways, very content, despite it being 15 hours in length. It was good to observe…
Apr 15, 2015
INTERDENOMINATIONAL VENERATION IN FORT COCHIN, INDIA . HARMONY AMONG THE INHABITANTS OF ALL FAITHS
INTERDENOMINATIONAL VENERATION IN FORT COCHIN, INDIA HARMONY AMONG THE INHABITANTS OF ALL FAITHS For curious reasons, Fort Cochin, the little peninsula jetting into the Backwaters, facing the Arabian sea in…