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.
While looking for evidence of some jewish connection to Tipu Sultan of Mysore, I came across the name of Isaac the Jew. His name appears in multiple documents, in Dutch…
Since the 1980s, in the USA, obesity and diseases related to that have been on the increase. Despite the enormous amount of money spent on TREATMENT (Americans are less interested…
Why do some songs hit you with such a powerful force that you have a feeling that you are in a hurricane and soon an incredible lull of silence and…
A little History: I used to make a side trip to Bangalore when I visited Cochin to visit the Premier Bookstore, alas no more, the owner migrated to Australia, I…
These are the countries which are close to my heart and in each one of them there are conflicts of one sort of another: all politicized, whether it is the…
It was a nice day here in Miami today. The weather was picture perfect. I had contact with many of my friends around the world. The men of letters that…
I can look through the large glass window as I type this and see wonderful trees that grow in the space on the front of these townhouses. In the backyard…
Listen to the Intellectuals, whether you agree with them or not, you may learn something. Just because other people have different opinions from your own, they are not your enemies.…
IT fills my heart with such pride and joy that a small nation of just 11 million people, strangled by international forces, mainly to the north and their peons, was…
Last night I felt an excitement which I couldn't explain and always reminded me of my Meskwakia teacher : What a pity you are not smart enough to understand all…
There is not a single person in USA and perhaps the world who DOES NOT know that EXERCISE is good for you and a basic understanding of what foods are…
this is a continuation of the previous post, I was having some trouble with this paragraph and the video to attach to the blog. Nowhere in the west you can…
One of the pleasures of driving leisurely to the National Park to visit the Indigenous people, is to listen to BBC World Service.. It is truly, as it claims, the…
I had sent photographs of my happy day to my best friend in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and her comment was : Choc Roses and Che . Life is complete she…
Landladies and Inn keepers may have offered "curried" dishes before then, but this was the first restaurant owned and operated by and an Indian, a Bengali Muslim Sake Dean Mohammed,…
About six weeks ago I noticed a mother Duck and about 12 of her ducklings, present themselves. Mother needless to say was very protective and she could hide all her…
When asked to accompany an European-Australian to go for a run around a football field, an Australian aboriginal person accepted the invitation and ran with him around the ground. When…
One of the simple pleasures in life is to sip a cup of Cuban Coffee. I walk to the nearest cafe, and order a Cortadito which is a Cuban style…
