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.
BORN IN CUBA, RAISED IN MIAMI, FIRST DEGREE FROM UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI, THE SECOND ONE, A DOCTORATE IN PSYCHOLOGY, FROM YALE SHE IS A CUBAN-AMERICAN, PRESIDENT OF ONE OF THE…
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…
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…
The sun was setting as I drove into the village where the Blue House is located. One main road and at the end of the main road is the school…
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…
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…
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…
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…
TENDERNESS WITHOUT BORDERS. Ternura sin Fronteras No puedo vivir sin ternura One cannot live without tenderness Pablo Neruda once wrote Sabre acariciar las neuvas flores por que tu me ensenaste…
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…
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…
A PLEA FOR UNIVERSALISATION RATHER THAN GLOBALIZATION OF EDUCATION AND TALENT BBC had an article about Access and Attainment of Education in Developing countries. Every one realizes that access to…
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 AirBnB, the USA based accommodation sharing agency and app, announced it was adding CUBA to its list of countries. Obviously things are opening up, attracting…
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…
I returned to Cochin after an absence of five years, which is very long for me with regard to any country in my world view. I had come primarily to…
