May 15, 2019
RETURNING TO HAVANA FULL OF EXPECTATIONS MAY 2019
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…
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May 15, 2019
A BRIGHT SUNNY DAY IN MIAMI
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…
May 15, 2019
MEMORIES OF DAYS IN RAPA NUI EASTER ISLAND ISLA DE PASCUA
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…
May 15, 2019
TOURIST VS TRAVELLER WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE
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…
May 15, 2019
SLOW BOAT TO MANAUS
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…
May 15, 2019
THE LITTLE BOATMAN OF THE AMAZON
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…
May 15, 2019
LETICIA, THE COLOMBIAN AMAZON
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,…
May 15, 2019
HAPPY 71ST BIRTHDAY . ISRAEL . AND CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR ECONOMIC MIRACLES
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…
May 15, 2019
KADDISH FOR EDDIE IN RANGOON . RT HON EDWARD SEAGA OF JAMAICA
It was Friday and I had a superlative day visiting special places in Rangoon in Burma (Yangon in Myanmar). The dusk was falling as I reached back at the hotel…
May 15, 2019
DIABETES AS A SOCIAL ILLNESS AND THE DUNBAR NUMBER
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…
May 15, 2019
THE BEGINNINGS OF A WONDERFUL DAY IN RANGOON BURMA YANGON/MYANMAR . BIRMANIE BIRMANIA
Eithwe and I have been friends for more than a decade and I am glad to have played a small role in advancing the career of this young woman in…
May 15, 2019
GLOBAL HEALTH PHYSICIAN ANTHROPOLOGIST . DOES THAT EXIST ?
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