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.
Israel and Iran are the two most educated people in the Middle East The two countries with millennial history. I look forward to the time when the people of Israel…
Faramaz Aslani and Babak Amini made this video YAR in La Habana. It is nice to see the melodies and rhythms of Iran and Cuba mix..
I always reach the Airport a little earlier than normal, mainly to have a nice breakfast at the Flagship Lounge of the American Airlines. 730 am An Uber driver by…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE I AM A PROUD M.O.T. MEMBER OF THE TRIBE The first time I heard the expression MOT, was from a doctor teacher,…
In India there has been a proliferation of book publishing and new and newer authors are constantly being discovered. Also the prices of books are very reasonable and who could…
ARABIC STYLE FOOD IN COCHIN, KERALA The name of the restaurant was attractive enough, ZATAAR, the herb mentioned in the Jewish scriptures, which in Israel one uses in abundance. Mr…
Am I off key to anticipate my flights on QR Qatar Airways? I look forward to my QR flights and on this morning, Madrid to Doha and then on to…
I am not sure when I first heard the phrase, Coincidences do not exist but much sonorous in Spanish, Casualidad no es tan Casual..but one thing for sure. It was…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE SAUDADE FOR IRAN Saudade is my favourite Portuguese word, which has been translated into many forms of nostalgia, anoransa en Spanish, longings…
We had become friends when we were still medical students. and shared the same hospital when we were training to become specialist physicians. It was not Medicine that brought us…
I had a delightful 10 day stay at the only hotel facing the Arabian Sea at the historic town of Fort Cochin, near the Indian city of Ernakulum in Kerala,…
I received this photograph from the Middle East. I was overjoyed to see a geographical impression of our America imposed upon the open eyes.. and behold CUBA is right there…
I like my stopovers in Doha on my way from Asia to either Europe or USA.. I have met people from all over the world, who are temporarily resident in…
It was a good beginning.. waiting for a flight to arrive from Sharjah at 3 am.. the cool morning on the drive to Bristow's Bungalow in Fort cochin.. This New…
I look forward to my flights with Qatar Airways QR.. and this one was no exception .. I got to the airport in time to check out the Lounge which…
A BUDDHIST monk appears at the hotel where I was staying at Fort Cochin in Kerala, India He is a Geshe, just one year short of becoming a monk. He…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Since October 5 th , 2019, I have been on a high emotional ride, things which seems unconnected are truly related to…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE from Silent is the House BY EMILY BRONTË Come, the wind may never again Blow as now it blows for us; And…
