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.
Many of the indigenous peoples around the world had lived their lives in relative comfort and conditions when OUTSIDERS began to arrive.. it does not matter that it happened 4000-2500…
When a statesman of the calibre of Mr Seaga passes away, each of the thousands of people who had come in contact with him throughout his illustrious, long political career,…
WHO can begin the day without a cup of cuban coffee? Lunch prepared by colleagues: Organic Chicken, Organic Potato In contrast the dinner was Lamb, Brussels sprouts, Beans, asparagus It…
THE BEST CULTURAL EXPERIENCE IN YANGON, BURMA/MYANMAR Burma as it is now in 2019, convulsed through democratic change whilst the military is in tight control, inviting the world condemnation with…
I became aware of Eric Hobsbawm, while preparing to give a series of lectures at the University of Havana. I had just his book: The Age of Extremes. I love…
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A good friend of mine from South Dakota was once visiting Miami and remarked: You are a homeless doctor, but you are always First Class. My brother Eliyahu always prided…
Le succès économique le plus frappant d’Israël Un article de Libération. « Présenter Israël comme un triomphe économique et technologique a un avantage : c’est une vérité indéniable. Au bord…
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,…
I was at the wharf at Leticia in the Colombian Amazon when I saw a lonely little kayak barely out of the water being rowed by a boy no more…
I wanted to spend a day exploring the small towns along the Amazon with my Tikuna Indian friends. We set off after breakfast from Leticia, Colombia I had been offered…
Many a travel writer would like to offer the differences in attitudes and behaviour of a tourist in comparison to a traveller and there are lists of differences that one…
I am very grateful that I have visited Rapa Nui four times so far and with each time my connection with the land and the people have increased. this last…
I am spending a few days in Miami. and it feels strange, as I am not used to being here as a person who lives here (which I did as…
I was ready to return to Cuba after a longer than usual stay in Miami. I always want to get to the airport at Miami earlier than necessary so that…
For those wondering about the above named entity, it is not the newest nation in Africa but perhaps it is one of the oldest in the Western Hemisphere.. En otros…
I feel so content walking along the Malecon just one block from my flat. Feel so free, so free of any thoughts that are binding you to any other place…
The Community of Endocrine Physicians and Psychologists is a small well knit cohesive and gentle one. Whenever I get a chance to be with them, mostly at conferences, I enjoy…
