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.
This visit to Cochin is turning out to be beyond expectations. Mr Ranjit and Mr Vertivar, both from Pondicherry, the administrative team at TOWER HOUSE hotel in the heart of…
Journey as Metaphor Journey as a Metaphor of Life in the USA and Europe I travelled from Miami Florida USA to Nantes France Airline. American Airlines. Score 2/5 Trains. RER…
it has been an extraordinary day of euphoria: doing exactly what you want to do with your body, thoughts and mind. It began with a poem arriving from a friend…
YALDA the longest night is celebrated in IRAN where it must have originated while it was Zoroastrian centuries before the Muslim conquest. It is also celebrated in some parts of…
Today has been a good day.. Was it the Ozone therapy that I received over the weekend or the wonderful meals? of the pleasure of talking to an Indian Elder?…
Who has not heard of Easter Island and the legendary Moai there? Because of the extreme isolation of the island, travel there is not easy. I have been lucky enough…
We had been invited to dinner at the home of the daughter of my Brother Youssef. It is only a short walk from where I am staying with him. The…
I felt that the year 2019 was an extraordinarily good year for travel . COUNTRIES VISITED IN 2019 MANY TIMES USA CUBA FRANCE MEXICO COLOMBIA BRASIL ARGENTINA URUGUAY CHILE EASTER…
A good friend of mine wrote: I developed a pinpoint rash on my left lower leg in early 2017. In September 2017, I developed a total body rash and saw…
CUERNAVACA, MEXICO is so full of longings. No puedo vivir sin amor, laments the alcoholic ex-British consul played by that great actor Albert Finney in Malcolm Lowery's book Under the…
I am not a fan of watching sports on TV but I like to be abreast of what is happening, especially from an anthropological point of view. When we were…
The Jewish New Year is upon us..Couldnt celebrate properly last year and this year seems we will celebrate on line with whoever wish to share these days.. This being human…
It was 4 pm, the mellow sun was about to set over the London skies. I was a student of Anthropology at London. I made myself a cup of tea.…
On the day Kabul in Afghanistan succumbed to the Taliban forces, there was a collective groan of agonized voices around the world.. What will happen to our Afghan sisters? It…
If you were growing up in Melbourne, among friends whose parents or grandparents had emigrated to avoid persecution in face of Nazi tyranny, there are many countries, duchies, towns that…
t he geography of the region, island of Hormuz, Oman and Ras-al-Khaimah in the UAE This blog was written in response to a question from Abu Dhabi in UAE regarding…
It was a nice day here in Miami today. The weather was picture perfect. I had contact with many of my friends around the world. The men of letters that…
Every Monday morning, the music streaming service, selects algorithmically based on my past listening habits, songs which are new to me and it is a pleasure to discover International Singers…
