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.
In Miami, it is not just the cars and other vehicles that clutter the air with the noise but more odious is the noise created by the thinking of the…
Many years ago, the astute physician of south D akota who was also my friend, Dr Jim K, came to visit me in MIami and he made an observation about…
How quickly memories of a recent trip fades into the banality of everyday life even if you are surrounded by beauty. Travel is movement, every day life is stationary. My…
It was the day of excellence during the heavy rain on the part of the dentist who drove through the sheets of rain to attend to my teeth. Tonight would…
MY FIRST EXPERIENCE FLYING SAUDIA: I AM GLAD HE ALI AKBAR IS RUNNING Qatar Airways WITH HIS ASIAN CREW I have been partial to flying Qatar Airways ever since that…
Journey as Metaphor Journey as a Metaphor of Life in the USA and Europe I travelled from Miami Florida USA to Nantes France Airline. American Airlines. Score 2/5 Trains. RER…
FRENCH PARADOX EXPLAINED: IN ACTION IN NANTES, FRANCE AT RESTAURANT LA LOCA For people who are QUANTITATIVELY minded, they compare numbers to numbers and never about what makes the numbers…
It has been an extraordinary day.. My friends in Iran prepared and started celebrating NOWRUZ the Persian New year, remembering a time long when Zoroastrianism was the creed of the…
I have always identified myself as a Jewish Boy from Melbourne, even though I have lived in other places and other countries. Learning to speak Spanish, I am fairly proficient…
The 1942 movie CASABLANCA which was entirely filmed in studios in Los Angeles became a cult movie and to this day continues to be considered a special movie. I remember…
Went inside a supermarket Flavours of another America wafted towards the creaking doors warped with time and usage I wanted some incense, sugar which is not refined perhaps some coffee…
After 18 months of corporal punishment in Miami during Covid 19 isolation (gaining 4 kg in weight and a bloated belly and intellectual decay), I decided to travel despite restrictions.…
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…
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…
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…
What all happens in the course of a day? asked the poet. Each day is an unexpected gift, you may meet someone new, taught my erudite jewish teacher in Melbourne,…
Who has not heard of Easter Island and the legendary Moai there? Because of the extreme isolation of the island, travel there is not easy. I have been lucky enough…
We had been invited to dinner at the home of the daughter of my Brother Youssef. It is only a short walk from where I am staying with him. The…
