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.
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…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE KNOW YOUR BRAND.. Yellow Tail is without doubt the most popular Australian brand of wine known in the USA and UK.. But…
Up here we are HUMAN...learning to be a Human Being among the Indians.. I have spent the past week with the Lakota at Cheyenne River. As each day came to…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Praying for Sister Jackie and Mammig and offering gratitude to Dr Wang, Miami and IGR at Villejuif, Paris The outside temperature is…
Miami is not the place one expects to say a large mural of Aung San Suu Kyi. The majority of people in Miami are either Immigrants or children of Immigrants,…
Normal 0 false false false false EN-US JA X-NONE COINCIDENCE DOES NOT EXIST YOU MAY MEET LAWRENCE ROWE ON THE ROAD A friend of mine was going down to Barbados…
Friendships that spring fountains of love of shared thoughts, aspirations and love for others, love of each other, do clearly attach to our emotions with an everlasting brilliance. I was…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Attire for Work, notes from the Indian Country I am at work. I am a Consultant Physician, specializing in Endocrinology, and work…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE A Good Month of News that warms the heart.. I left IAH on 1 August 2012 on Qatar Airways to DOHA and…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE He did not try to adjust to new times, nor did he lament the effects of the Soviet collapse, but he stayed…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE ASEAN…a friendly and welcoming environment Ever since I became aware of travel, I have always tried to cover regions. The Pacific was…
Doctors day is celebrated on various day on various continents, in Cuba, it is the birthday of Carlos Finlay that is celebrated as the Doctors Day. Today is the Birthday…
I had begun this journey from the Reservation of Omaha Indians of North America, which took me, either on airlines or countries which were mostly Moslem: Qatar, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei,…
Long Live Fidel, Shout my Malaysian and Indonesian Friends The night had just fallen and we could look at the Mekong River from where we were sitting. Our little group…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE WHEN ONE DOOR IS CLOSED, DON’T YOU KNOW THE OTHER IS OPEN? Those lyrics from Bob Marley, Philosopher from Jamaica, always held…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Don't be arrogant, because arrogance kills curiosity and passion.” Recently I had been thinking about CONTEXT, in a phenomenological sense, but never…
Normal 0 false false false false EN-US JA X-NONE PHILSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY BAKHTIN MERLEAU-PONTY Like many of us, I can clearly recall a turning point in my life. Soon after graduation…
Going Home, A good day to Fly.. Websites, newspapers and radio are full of horror stories of air travel within the USA, but they are just talking about the structural…
