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.
Miami – 12 July 2026, 6:00 a.m. I flew nonstop from Doha, Qatar, to Miami on Qatar Airways. The flight lasted fifteen hours. I have travelled this route many times…
It is a Saturday night in Miami. I arrived two weeks ago from Cochin and Cambodia.. and the days of rest like this one are welcome .. time for nostalgia…
The Diversity of Suriname and the Genuine Warmth of its People My health-conscious friend suddenly stopped at a shop selling meat. I wondered why. Then I noticed the sign: Halal…
A reflection on Suriname’s food culture, hospitality, and the sweetness that carries through daily life.
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…
A lunch in France becomes a lesson in nutrition, culture, and the social worlds that shape how people eat.
A reflection on medicine, anthropology, and long relationships with Indigenous communities around the world.
A note written in concern and solidarity for friends in Iran during a time of silence, fear, and resilience.
A Miami evening of friendship, language, and human warmth beyond ordinary categories of nationality or identity.
A reflection on medicine as relationship: food, listening, care, and presence beyond the clinic.
A personal note on France, Champagne, taste, and the cultural education of pleasure.
A year-end travel reflection on movement, memory, and the places that shaped the year.
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…
A Miami food memory that connects Cuban exile, restaurants, nostalgia, and the soul of Havana.
A personal reflection on travel as a life priority, offered as one person’s path rather than advice for everyone.
A reflection on the American nutrition crisis as a problem of culture, education, inequality, and systems.
A coastal field note tracing mangroves, memory, Pine Island, Cuba, and the quiet routes between places.
A memory of Jamaica, saudade, and the emotional afterlife of places where one once lived.
