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.
A YOUNG INDIAN WOMAN GOES OFF TO THE UNIVERSITY: FAMILY AND FRIENDS SAY FAREWELL I attended a ceremony of farewell to a young Indian Woman who was going off to…
WELCOME HOME A NATIVE AMERICAN WELCOME One of the greatest gifts in my life has been my choice to work with American Indians. The plans were to finish my post…
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…
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…
DEPARTURE OF AFFECTIONS Departure of affections Does not reside in one place Returns in the face of a sweet girl Creates memories with questions And I feel sad I tell…
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…
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…
BEST THING ABOUT ABU DHABI IS KERALA! And the other foreign workers from Asia I had a 12 hour transit in AUH recently, in a strange and imaginative itinerary, coming…
• The authors of this large retrospective longitudinal cohort study assessed the risk of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) associated with intrauterine exposure to type 2 diabetes and gestational diabetes mellitus.…
At a personal level; Friendships so deep that it is like a tattoo in your heart. Intellectual: discourses with a human face. society at the street level Food Burritos de…
Just a few days ago I was in Fort Cochin, was wondering where I would spend the first night of Pesach! No invitation was forthcoming from Portland, Oregon so I…
The train is called SuperFast which is a relative term here, instead of taking 12 hours to cover 560 km, today they would do it in ten hours and a…
It took me forty four hours of travel By car from the Indian Reservation to the airport in Omaha, Nebraska and then a short flight to Chicago. Waited for the…
Gratitude in Fort Cochin I am reminded of the line from the French writer, Marcel Ayme: I, said the man, am a Jew As I walked up to the offices…
ONE WEEK IN THE USA: A TRAVELOGUE This is a not an ordinary travelogue. I have just spent one week in the USA. I flew in from London on American…
On Reading about Buddhist Philosophy Peace in the world begins with us What works? What works to free the mind from Suffering? What works to engender the heart of compassion?…
Today is Wednesday, 11 th March 2015 In a tribal Clinic in a corner of the State of Nebraska, the isolation measured by the distance to the nearest café: 30…
I was happy to see the following article written by two nutritionists from the USA.. they were talking about the humble black beans of Cuba.. a bean that appears regularly…
