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.
This has been an unexpected trip and not well prepared trip at all. But every day, unexpected pleasures have come my way. On arriving at the Madrid Airport, after a…
I was in Malaga in Andalucia and my destination was Quiberon, Bretagne. I always liked Nantes as a place to change from an intra European flight to the train that…
Many years ago I met the Le Petite Poete de Côte Sauvage. She was three years old at that time and in a rather neruda-esque description, she said to me…
L'Orient, a town in Brittany has a long history and during the second world war it was razed to the ground and every thing we see now was built since…
This small town which thrives on tourism was all but deserted, with no movement of either people or cars in the streets. Nothing was open, except the pharmacy busy with…
Quiberon lies at the end of a peninsula bearing its name, connected by a thin strip of land to the mainland Brittany and France. The village of Quiberon has a…
Even in the small provincial village of Quiberon in Brittany in France in the bookstore one could find copies of the book by the Israeli historian of the future, Yuval…
The Sun was setting in Miami. I had been back just over 24 hours ago. Yesterday I left that city of Light and Love. No city in North America comes…
I am happy to have come to the USA for my post graduate studies in Endocrinology (excellent clinical education at Jackson Memorial Hospital of the University of Miami) but even…
I noticed the title of the song Homage a Ton Ton Ferrer.. ton ton is a french endearment for Uncle .. I like that word. so Ferrer did not catch…
It is the Full Moon. My good friend, JK, took this in Imperial, Nebraska. 18 January 2022 First full moon of 2022. The above photo of Full moon over Miami…
I have been in a very good mood since my return from France and Spain (Malaga and Islas Canarias). The weather in Miami has been superb, the kind one expects…
I had a ticket on British Airways to London and then on Iberia to Madrid and Marrakech. I was looking forward to returning to Riad 58 Blue and my new…
Delightful day at the National park among the Indigenous people. as always. Someone determined to chat, comes through the rain, clutching his dog He asks for a towel so that…
I have a close friend I met through our work with Native Indians of the USA. She worked as a Director of Nursing at one of the larger reservations in…
It has been a while. My magical life in Melbourne, Australia was in full swing. I heard this song Ne me quitte pas after listening to it a hundred times…
I consider myself to be very fortunate to have visited the SAMI people. They are spread over the arctic in Norway and Sweden, Finland and Russia in a large contiguous…
The Genesis Prize Foundation is pleased to announce that Dr. Albert Bourla , Chairman and CEO of Pfizer, has been selected as the winner of the 2022 Genesis Prize ,…
