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.
Leaving the Blue House on the Indian Reservation to Omaha Airport then a short flight to Chicago and the United First Lounge United Chicago to Frankfurt. Lufthansa Senator Lounge at…
VISA ON ARRIVAL INDIA Those of us with an urge to visit this teeming land of Real Fakirs and Fake Yogis, Excellent Food and Mediocre Wannabees imitating the West, full…
In the 1970s, a venerable gentleman, founded a choir to rescue boys from lower income neighbourhood and it had considerable success with many recordings and various tours across the country…
It was billed as an ordinary dinner, after I had lit shabbat candles and thought of the appropriate people. Just six of us.. what you can call a Dinner Party.…
What a lovely way to end the year 2011 It is a cold but not an unbearable day, I do miss the blue skies of the cold days of the…
GAUGUIN AMBIENTE GALETAS Y PINTURAS PONT AVON In the 19 th century, American artists not having a school of paintings to belong to flocked to France. They found Pont Avon,…
It has been an unusually mild winter week in the North Eastern Corner of Nebraska. I left at 11 am from the Blue House, while the skies were cloudless and…
Bienvenidos a San Augustin de Laredo, fundado 1755 on the banks of Rio Grande. (Rio Bravo). Currently part of the State of Texas and thus United States of America Laredo…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE How wrong are the Epidemiologists? Troubadours of Tragedy or what Fidel and Breast Cancer have in common? We are constantly bombarded with…
THE STORY OF CHOLESTEROL, WE DO NEED A SHERLOCK HOLMES HERE… While writing this, I was reminded so much of one of my good teachers in Endocrinology, Dr Eric Reiss,…
Increasing number of British Migrants are leaving Australia to go HOME! Something like this would have been unheard of when we were growing up..What has happened? Has Oz gone sour?…
I have been fortunate to have been friends with the Traditional Kickpoos with current homelands in Eagle Pass Texas and Nacimiento Mexico. They were originally in the Green Bay area…
Dont listen to the nutritional advice you see on the Internet or from a person to whom you pay to hear it.. just watch the french eat.. why is that…
Grateful for a good month of travel, friends, good food and family. Highlights were certainly: Malacca in Malaysia Paris Miami Lecture at Oklahoma City Harvest Festival of the Hocank Steve…
I stepped out of the gymnasium into the pleasantly chilled air of this waning days of the Northern Summer; I could still hear the drums and jingle of the dresses.…
WISH THEY WERE NOT HERE.. At the recent meeting of the European Association of the Study of Diabetes (September 12-16, 2011) at Lisboa, Portugal, alarm was sounded by the troubadours…
It may have been in 2004, I had gone across to Johor Bahru to relieve the tedium, when I ran into a Book Exhibition inside a Hindou temple.. Intrigued I…
I am fortunate in that i fly to some interesting destinations during the course of the year and I always look forward to my next destination.. today it was Miami,…
