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.
During the years I lived in Europe, I had to tragically witness three terrorist attacks, two of them involving mainly Jews and the last one in November 2015 of the…
SWOON OVER MIAMI: LOVE AFFAIR WITH TROPICAL TORPOR CONTINUES. 2016 Just a few days ago, I said a symbolic good bye to Europe. It is symbolic rather than pedantic, as…
After leaving France and Belgium, it was so good to spend a few days in Miami, my American home. Miami always reminds me of the variety of food and the…
I am writing this in a hotel room in Westport in the State of Washington in the USA. I can hear the ocean in the distance and i can see…
Westport, Washington: A report from what used to be the Salmon Capital of the World Going towards the Pacific coast, skirting the Puget Sound, once you pass an indistinct town…
For a person who was not fortunate enough to spend a lot of time with those related by blood to me, I have been extraordinarily grateful for the many members…
FRACTURED MEDICAL CARE IN THE TIME OF TECHNOLOGY There is a shortage of Primary Care Providers so the burden has been shared with not so well prepared Doctor’s Assistant and…
FROM THE ECONOMIST AND TO QUOTE Some criminals are switching from cocaine trafficking to prescription-drug fraud because the risk-adjusted rewards are higher: the money is still good, the work safer…
Little Mr D whom I met for the first time, is the son of Mitexi, my niece in the UmonHon Tradition. Olympia, the capital of the State of Washington is…
The greatest victory of the accord of 17 dec 2014 between Obama and Castro, USA and Cuba is that Americans have flocked to the country in their thousands and seen…
The diplomatic relationship between Cuba and USA are getting better by the day and the majority of the Cubans are happy with this outcome. This thaw also has created a…
YVES BERTHOU AND PRANAYAMA Most people in the west are now aware of the Yogic Breathing, Pranayama, which is used for relaxation as well as treatment for some of the…
First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out…
I am touched by the solidarity Solidarite shown by people all around the world for France and its people and also for Jewish People at this very difficult time. I…
HANNIBAL THE BOATMAN OF THE AMAZON The amazon conjures up various images in the mind of the European or their descendants in USA. It is painting of a savage on…
HOW MUCH DO CUBANS EARN? This is a question often asked of me, and over the years, representing Cuba, in an unofficial capacity as its roving ambassador, self-described of course,…
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I AM NOTHING. A BEGINNING OF CULTURAL CONFUSION AND LACK OF IDENTITY AND HOW IT IMPACTS HEALTH I have just been to Leticia, in Colombian Amazon, my fourth visit in…
