Jan 15, 2021
END OF AN ERA… WE HAD A GOOD TIME, DIDNT WE?
It has been a long haul.. long stretched out dinners full conversations late into the night.. catching up on the news of your dear friends.. spontaneously running into faces familiar…
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Jan 15, 2021
NEVER BEFORE HAVE I FELT THIS IMPOTENT ABOUT INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL
It was March 18, 2020 and I had packed my bags and ready to go to the airport to leave the USA. My sister and her husband begged me to…
Jan 15, 2021
A BIT OF HISTORY OF CUBA-USA RELATIONSHIP
The United States like other colonized countries: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and all of Latin America from Mexico to Tierra del Fuego, do not have a good record…
Jan 15, 2021
CUBA CAN PRODUCE 100 MILLION UNITS OF COVID 19 VACCINE. ALL CUBANS WILL BE VACCINATED AND VIETNAM INDIA IRAN VENEZUELA BOLIVIA, PAKISTAN WILL BENEFIT AND SOME OTHERS
Cuba alista 100 millones de dosis de vacuna antiCovid-19 La Habana, 20 ene (Prensa Latina) Cuba crea las capacidades para producir 100 millones de dosis de la vacuna Soberana 02…
Jan 15, 2021
DID YOU KNOW THAT BREAKFAST IS THE IMPORTANT MEAL WAS COINED BY A BACON COMPANY? IN THE USA
NEW YORK TIMES like BBC has interesting tidbits and well annotated social accounts very seldom found in more popular commercial news media. Who propagated the idea that Breakfast is the…
Jan 15, 2021
WHAT CAN WE DO NOW? NOW THAT 2021 IS UPON US AND STILL A FEW MONTHS TO GO BEFORE NORMALCY? RETURNS
WHAT CAN WE DO NOW ? By the middle of January 2021, I would have completed the course of vaccination against Covid 19 Apart from Israel, no other country would…
Jan 15, 2021
WORDS SOMETIMES CAN DAMAGE PRECIOUS THINGS
HOW PRECIOUS THINGS ARE DAMAGED BY MISUNDERSTOOD WORDS Words are the greatest source of misunderstanding. And especially when one is reading in another language. I have never added a moral…
Jan 15, 2021
LASSO ROUND THE MOON BY AGNAR MYKLE , THEN A NORDIC INFLUENCE IN LITERATURE WITH KNUT HAMSEN’S HUNGER
I was still in high school and in the habit of frequenting second hand bookstores (why did they all disappear?) when I came across a novel by Agnar Mykle's Lasso…
Dec 15, 2020
CELESTIAL MAGIC OF DECEMBER 21
I had been waiting for this day, 21 december 2020. Normally it is just the Winter Solstice. Even in this tropical clime, during this time of the year, the sun…
Dec 15, 2020
NURSES VISITING PATIENTS AT HOME AND RELAYING INFORMATION TO THE CLINIC: A VITAL PART OF HEALTH CARE AND ANTHROPOLOGICALLY APPROPRIATE
This is a presentation I gave to a group of Visiting Nurses/Home Health Nurses. I will write commentaries on each of the slides and hope that many nurses get to…
Dec 15, 2020
TWO PIECES OF ADVICE FROM DIFFERENT. PARTS OF THE WORLD. 31.12.2020
Jeff Bezos, Mr. Amazon, was a precocious kid who once told his grandmother, who was fond of smoking, how to calculate the number of days of life lost by smoking.…
Dec 15, 2020
IF YOU WANT RELIABLE AND TRUTHFUL NEWS, BE PREPARED TO PAY FOR IT
It was one of my professors of Medicine in Miami, Dr Howard Lessner, Olav ha shalom, who said to me: the drug companies would send you lots of free materials…