May 15, 2026
The Sweet Ethos of Suriname
A reflection on Suriname’s food culture, hospitality, and the sweetness that carries through daily life.
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.
Apr 15, 2026
A CGM Continuous Glucose Monitoring, Artificial Intelligence, and the Limits of Cultural Understanding
A CGM, Artificial Intelligence, and the Limits of Cultural Understanding For the past week, I have been wearing a continuous glucose monitor, a device largely designed and marketed for the…
Apr 15, 2026
A French Lunch: Vive la France
A lunch in France becomes a lesson in nutrition, culture, and the social worlds that shape how people eat.
Apr 15, 2026
A Physician-Anthropologist Among Indigenous Peoples
A reflection on medicine, anthropology, and long relationships with Indigenous communities around the world.
Mar 15, 2026
To My Friends in Iran
A note written in concern and solidarity for friends in Iran during a time of silence, fear, and resilience.
Feb 15, 2026
A Wonderful Diverse World in Miami
A Miami evening of friendship, language, and human warmth beyond ordinary categories of nationality or identity.
Jan 15, 2026
Anthropological Reflection: Medicine Without Walls
A reflection on medicine as relationship: food, listening, care, and presence beyond the clinic.
Jan 15, 2026
France and My Introduction to Champagne
A personal note on France, Champagne, taste, and the cultural education of pleasure.
Jan 15, 2026
Travels in 2025, Hopes for More Travels in 2026
A year-end travel reflection on movement, memory, and the places that shaped the year.
Jan 15, 2026
Empathy, Compassion, and Respect for the Other
Empathy, Compassion, and Respect for the Other In the span of a single week, events have unfolded with such density that one has the uneasy feeling that the political architecture…
Aug 15, 2025
The First Cuban Restaurant in Miami, with the Soul of 1960s Havana
A Miami food memory that connects Cuban exile, restaurants, nostalgia, and the soul of Havana.
Jul 15, 2025
My Way of Travel
A personal reflection on travel as a life priority, offered as one person’s path rather than advice for everyone.
Jun 15, 2025
The Nutrition Crisis in the United States
A reflection on the American nutrition crisis as a problem of culture, education, inequality, and systems.
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.
May 15, 2025
Jamaica, Many Years Later and Saudade por Tudo
A memory of Jamaica, saudade, and the emotional afterlife of places where one once lived.
May 15, 2025
Why Spelling Bee 2025 Was More Than Just a Competition
🐝 Why Spelling Bee 2025 Was More Than Just a Competition This year’s Scripps National Spelling Bee concluded with a thrilling victory by a 13-year-old boy from Plano, Texas .…
May 15, 2025
A Wonderful Day in Silver Sands, Jamaica
A warm field note from Silver Sands, Jamaica, on friendship, hospitality, and the grace of ordinary days.
Jan 15, 2025
Healing and Caring Rather Than Curing Among Indigenous Peoples
A field note on Indigenous care, monthly clinical gatherings, and the difference between service and healing.