Dec 15, 2025
Worldliness as Cultural Capital: Notes on International Childhood
A reflection on international childhood, independence, and the early-acquired cultural capital that shapes how children move through the world.
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.
Nov 15, 2025
It Is Easy to Learn to Speak English Poorly
It Is Easy to Learn to Speak English Poorly by Yehuda Kovesh MD (London), FRAI (London) A Frenchman’s Remark A French academician once observed: “English is a language that is…
Nov 15, 2025
I Am an Exile Only Because I Have No Desire to Return
A meditation on Istanbul, memory, wandering, and the strange freedom of exile without nostalgia for return.
Sep 15, 2025
The Magnet of Alligator Alcatraz
A political and anthropological reflection shaped by Suriname, migration, medicine, and the pull of difficult places.
Sep 15, 2025
Upper Class but Homeless: Nostalgia for Iran
A multilingual reflection on Iran, hospitality, exile, and the ache of belonging from afar.
Sep 15, 2025
Early Morning in Cochin on the Last Day of the Jewish Year 5785
A morning walk in Cochin becomes a field note on sea air, faith, health, and everyday public life.
Aug 15, 2025
Cochin: Harmony Among the Inhabitants of All Faiths
A reflection on Fort Cochin, interdenominational life, and the quiet coexistence of many faiths.
Aug 15, 2025
The First Cuban Restaurant in Miami, with the Soul of 1960s Havana
A Miami food memory that connects Cuban exile, restaurants, nostalgia, and the soul of Havana.
Jul 15, 2025
Miami, Memory, and the Migration of Authoritarian Thinking. Miami, Memoria y la Migración del Pensamiento Autoritario
Miami, Memoria y la Migración del Pensamiento Autoritario. First in Spanish and then in English Soy australiano, pero mi vínculo con Miami, Florida, comenzó durante mis estudios de medicina y…
Jul 15, 2025
My Way of Travel
A personal reflection on travel as a life priority, offered as one person’s path rather than advice for everyone.
Jul 15, 2025
Assassins
A historical note on the origins of the word assassin, moving through Bernard Lewis, Amin Maalouf, and medieval memory.
Jun 15, 2025
What Makes Someone Love Their Work?
A reflection on purpose, Indigenous health, and the kind of work that protects against burnout.
Jun 15, 2025
Mangroves and Memory: Hidden Currents Between Pine Island and Cuba
A coastal field note tracing mangroves, memory, Pine Island, Cuba, and the quiet routes between places.
Jun 15, 2025
The Nutrition Crisis in the United States
A reflection on the American nutrition crisis as a problem of culture, education, inequality, and systems.
Jun 15, 2025
Thinking About Omar Khayyam on a Historic Day of Conflict
A literary reflection on Omar Khayyam, skepticism, poetry, and the shadow of conflict between Israel and Iran.
May 15, 2025
Hope You Will Dance in My Life
A note on Persian lines, longing, saudade, and the feeling of loss before possession.
May 15, 2025
Jamaica, Many Years Later
A return to Jamaica through memory, language, friendship, and the lingering feeling of a place once lived.
May 15, 2025
A Wonderful Day in Silver Sands, Jamaica
A warm field note from Silver Sands, Jamaica, on friendship, hospitality, and the grace of ordinary days.