Jul 15, 2016
HAVANA DIARIES JULY 2016
If you love a country, you would always want to look at the positive aspects of that country, not criticize it. Criticism arising out of discourse is always welcome but…
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.
Mar 15, 2016
MIAMI TO HAVANA: FLIGHTS BECOMING MORE FREQUENT
On a recent transit at the Miami International Airport, I saw eight flights departing for Havana that morning!I had always imagined a miami-havana airbridge with hourly or half hourly flights…
Feb 15, 2016
MY LIFE OF FEAST AND FAMINE.. HAVANA IS THE MOVABLE FEAST..MIAMI INDIAN COUNTRY COCHIN FOR VARIOUS REASONS
I always look forward to going back to La Havana. Unbridled affections the chance to be yourself and spontaneous. I understand fully when a friend of mine, on his visit…
Dec 15, 2015
THE LUCKY ENDOCRINOLOGIST OF HAVANA..OUR ANTHROPOLOGIST IN CUBA
I am writing this in a hotel room in Westport in the State of Washington in the USA. I can hear the ocean in the distance and i can see…
Apr 15, 2015
HAVANA: A MOVEABLE FEAST OF EMOTIONS
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…
Nov 15, 2012
HAVANA TO MIAMI: IN 39 MINUTES YOU CAN BE IN ANOTHER PLANET
AA 9471 HAV-MIA 39 Minutes 15 minutes after leaving Havana, our aircraft was already over the Marathon Bridge, by 30 minutes we had entered the Everglades National park, descending into…
Jun 15, 2012
HAVANA NAGILA Falafel in Cuba
I had stopped at my sister's house on my way to La Habana. Affectionate as she is, didnt want me to go without some middle eastern food, so thrusted a…
Jun 15, 2012
Qantas in Havana, Cuba
As I approached the Terminal 2 of Jose Marti International Airport in La Habana, Cuba, imagine my surprise when I saw the familiar red and white Kangaroo Tail of a…
Nov 15, 2011
PHILOSOPHICAL COUNSELING IN HAVANA, CUBA
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Fieldwork in Immersion Philosophical Counselling The reality of Cuba is to be experienced and understood and not enjoyed only from the comforts…
Apr 15, 2011
San Cristobal de la Havana, TE EXTRANO
Hora en La Habana -
Nov 15, 2010
There are Seven Direct Flights a Day Miami to Havana
The Ambassdor from Egypt and an Upgrade to First Class Journeys to Cuba almost border on the surrealistic. The flight was supposed to leave Miami for Havana at 0300 pm…
Jul 15, 2009
Last Saturday in Havana and this Saturday…
I am at the Quiberon peninsula, which may have been an island once upon a time but lying across from off shore islands inBrittany, this is a quiet place, to…
Mar 15, 2026
Goodbye, Ricky Café
A farewell to a Miami café that held fragments of friendship, memory, and ordinary ritual.
Jan 15, 2026
Dark Night, Whirlpools, and the Limits of Consolation
A meditation after Hafez on grief, uncertainty, and the limits of easy consolation.
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.
Jan 15, 2025
Walker Evans and My Luck with Barbers
A reflection moving from Walker Evans to barbers, photography, human dignity, and fortunate encounters.
Aug 15, 2024
Goodbye Cuba and the Memories
A multilingual farewell to Cuba, friendship, memory, and the emotional tattoo left by Havana.
Mar 15, 2024
SECOND DAY OF NOWRUZ HAPPY DAYS
I enjoyed very much the first day of Nowruz, sending and receiving greetings and exchanging photographs and seeing many a haft sin tables and to see the happy faces of…