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.
I have been fortunate to have been friends with the Traditional Kickpoos with current homelands in Eagle Pass Texas and Nacimiento Mexico. They were originally in the Green Bay area…
in travel forums like The VirtualTourist, i see people wanting to go to Off the beaten track, for me , they exist everywhere, not only in cheap countries which are…
Despite my repeated visits to this sprawling country and the remoteness of some of my destinations, Eagle Pass, Texas Walthill, Nebraska Eagle Butte, South Dakota; I am amazed at the…
One of the images burnt in my memory is that of an Israeli soldier carrying an elderly Ethiopian Jewish woman, during the clandestine airlifting of 10 000 Ethiopian Jews to…
Grateful for a good month of travel, friends, good food and family. Highlights were certainly: Malacca in Malaysia Paris Miami Lecture at Oklahoma City Harvest Festival of the Hocank Steve…
I stepped out of the gymnasium into the pleasantly chilled air of this waning days of the Northern Summer; I could still hear the drums and jingle of the dresses.…
WISH THEY WERE NOT HERE.. At the recent meeting of the European Association of the Study of Diabetes (September 12-16, 2011) at Lisboa, Portugal, alarm was sounded by the troubadours…
It may have been in 2004, I had gone across to Johor Bahru to relieve the tedium, when I ran into a Book Exhibition inside a Hindou temple.. Intrigued I…
GIFTS FROM OKLAHOMA Oklahoma is a Choctaw word for Okla Red Humma Earth. Oklahoma City feels so neat, organized with a mixture of odl and new architecture, a sense of…
France is truly a very advanced country when it comes to taking care of the health and welfare of its citizens. Where in the world would you find employers providing…
American Indians place a lot of importance on Gratitude, feeling happy with what you have, (and thus not feeling unhappy with what you dont have) and they make a point…
10 am at Heathrow terminal 4 11 am at Paris CDG 1700 in KL Singapour 5 am in La Habana, Miami The flight from Paris to London was delayed because…
Fake Yogis from the West Having recently come across some Yoga students and Practitioners from the West who had been wandering around India, I have decided to follow an American…
AT LAST A GOOD MEAL IN BANGALORE The last time I visited Bangalore was in February of 2010. This time was a visit of 4 days and here are some…
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL KINDNESS OF STRANGERS I am spending a few days in Miami, enjoying the sunshine, relaxing at the beaches and eating well. The last item brought me to…
Amidst the Spiritual Ambience of UmonHon Indian Nation Pow Wow August 2011 There is so much TALK about spirituality these days in all media: electronic and written that people forget…
Arrived late last night at the Seattle Airport and within the next few hours I realized I have landed in USA.. the driver who took me to the hotel was…
I boarded the flight to Omaha from Detroit Airport. When they announced that volunteers were needed to give up their seats on this flight, I did a quick turn around…
