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.
BEAUTY IS IN THE EYES OF THE BEHOLDER…. THE ORIGINS OF RACISM IN MODERN TIMES? I was sitting on the stretch of grass behind my sister’s house in Miami. I…
We are living through a little difficult times that requires understanding of one another and also tolerant and compassionate behaviours to the others and be considerate of the feeble persons…
I have always wondered why we listen to the music that we listen to. Cesaria Evora from Cabo Verde sang in Portuguese Creole that no one, not even Portuguese speakers…
I am a traveller, so it is only natural that I hear various languages in my travels, some common, some uncommon and some rare. The most common languages for me…
I think it was Porfirio Diaz of Mexico who lamented: Oh Mexico, so close to the United States and so far away from God.. today I took the short flight…
How many countries I have fallen in LOVE in all these years of my travels? AUSTRALIA USA JAMAICA ENGLAND CUBA AND HAVE FELT STRONG EMOTIONS FOR MEXICO ARGENTINA FRANCE BELGIUM…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE The Year 2019 has been a good year for travel, but then again which year has not been a good one ?…
Welcome, Dr. Diaz A former director of the National Institute of Endocrinology and a well respected academic came to my little flat in La Habana for dinner and spend a…
Porfirio Diaz the Mexican Dictator seemed to have implied; Pobre Mexico, tan circa de Estados Unidos y tan lejos de Dios We, in Cuba, has something to offer the poor…
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 SAUDADE FOR IRAN Saudade is my favourite Portuguese word, which has been translated into many forms of nostalgia, anoransa en Spanish, longings…
WHAT A LOVELY END Loves have only grown.. CUBA my home, the numerous brothers and sister that I toil for.. a glass of Chenin Blanc from an Indian winery, ah…
0 0 1 295 1688 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 14 3 1980 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Eating in Havana Means two things FRIENDS…
My week in Havana was so delightful, friends, talks, preparations for a talk, coffee and cakes, and always every one helping every body else.. This is my Cuba, the Cuba…
I think with delight how these various cities or towns enter my life, as the time progresses. Suva, Fiji Thursday Island Kingston, Jamaica Baracoa, Cuba La Habana, Cuba Muzquiz, Coahuila,…
0 0 1 393 2245 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 18 5 2633 14.0 Normal 0 false false false false EN-US JA X-NONE --> In the last couple of…
I have not been in the centre of the city of London for the past three years and I was amazed how quickly I reintegrated myself to the beat of…
0 0 1 358 2044 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 17 4 2398 14.0 Normal 0 false false false false EN-US JA X-NONE I am travelling. In Mexico, a…
