Jan 15, 2011
Express your Gratitude, says the American Indian Wisdom
Gratitude List for 2010 As the year 2010 ends, it is good to recollect those people on whose shoulders the great fortune of 2010 came riding to us. Without them,…
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.
Nov 15, 2010
Bienvenidos a Cuba Welcome to Cuba…La Calor Humana
Bienvenidos a Cuba Cuban Hospitality and Cuban sense of Social Responsibility Exactly one month ago, the curator of the National Museum was in Paris and I was proud to show…
Oct 15, 2010
Childhood Obesity in the USA
Some thoughts on Childhood Obesity in the USA as I am waiting for a Lunch of Langoustines in the sea side Brittany port of Quiberon.. The prevalence of overweight was…
Sep 15, 2010
Erev Yom Kippur entre OS INDIOS Peace and Happiness to All
Feel very content on this erev Yom Kippur even though I am far away from many of the people who are important to me and also to the Jewish people…
Sep 15, 2010
Plans for Travel for the rest of 2010
Now that the High Holydays are nearly Over.. time to come back to the pastime of planning trips.. So far in September: Miami to Paris Paris to Miami Miami to…
Jun 15, 2010
Miami, the future Capital of the Americas.. Champagne and Asian Fusion Food!
Filipino Chinese Chef, Peruvian Student from Lima, LAN Pan Asian Restaurant It is time to celebrate, dear friends! What ingredients do we need? Good News! Of course, lately we have…
May 15, 2010
THE BARBER OF PORT VILA
I have to thank FeiWen, the hair stylist at A Cut Above at Bangsar in KL, for this chance meeting with the Barber of Port Vila. My best friend in…
May 15, 2010
Memories of a Collective Past.. weekend in Normandie
We who are from the New World, with an easy going lifestyle and an outward friendliness, find ourselves so comfortable in other new world countries.. for e,g., I am an…
Mar 15, 2010
Tristes Tropiques.. 30 Hours in Miami Part B
I sat with my sister for hours, chatting and catching up on common news. Since her treatment began in July 2009, I have tried to be here at appropriate moments…
Jan 15, 2010
The Pleasures of being snow Bound in Nebraska
It took me nearly two days, staying overnight at a CDG hotel, then another overnight at a hotel in Omaha, before i ventured out in the snow storm to the…
Jan 15, 2010
My Wishes for my Friends in 2010 and beyond
I am in Quiberon, Bretagne today. Tomorrow I leave to be with Native American Indians of Nebraska before going to Miami to visit my sister. I have uploaded some pictures…
Dec 15, 2009
French Paradox Explained At Breton
French Paradox Explained at a Breton Village The drive from the seaside Breton village of Quiberon with its holiday festive atmosphere and the shops awaiting the tourists, to the village…
Dec 15, 2009
Christmas Punishment…Houston to Paris on Business First
Christmas Punishment Never before in my life have I lost my appetite completely, but on the evening of the 19th December 2009, I did. What a punishment since I was…
Dec 15, 2009
Jamaican American Cuban Hospitality.. in Miami
The flight from CDG to MIA is a little tedious, 9 hours and 30 minutes.. the first few hours goes by quickly and then a couple of hours go slowly..…
Dec 15, 2009
Travel Plans for 2010
Was it March 1993, when this madness began? this continual rotation of travel..London, MIami, Havana, Baracoa, Paris as hubs of my travel? I do remember that trip: London to Bangkok,…
Jul 15, 2009
Last Saturday in Havana and this Saturday…
I am at the Quiberon peninsula, which may have been an island once upon a time but lying across from off shore islands inBrittany, this is a quiet place, to…
Dec 15, 2008
Among the UmOnHoN people
with a Macussi Indian Child in Southern Guyana The world Chocolate is an Indian word..Aztec Xocalatl The journey to the Indians is always arduous.. first of all there is the…