Jan 15, 2016
UNEXPECTED PLEASURES OF 2016 WELCOME TO CUBA
Life is not about the regrets about the PAST nor about the anxieties of the FUTURE. As I sit here at the Admirals Club at Heathrow Airport in London, I…
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Jan 15, 2016
IF YOU WISH TO BE HAPPY PRACTICE COMPASSION, IF YOU WANT TO MAKE OTHERS HAPPY PRACTICE COMPASSION
Yesterday I was watching a TED talk video from the director of the Harvard Project , which had followed a cohort of people in Boston, including Harvard College students 1938,…
Jan 15, 2016
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2016 FROM THE WILD COAST OF QUIBERON IN BRITTANY, FRANCE
Walking along the windswept coast of this village which has become a tourist destination for the French, I couldnt but think of the poems of Pablo Neruda who had described…
Jan 15, 2016
FOOD AS CELEBRATION: NEW YEARS EVE IN QUIBERON, BRITTANY, FRANCE
FOOD AS A CELEBRATION: NEW YEARS EVE IN QUIBERON, BRITTANY, FRANCE. When you are working with the American Indians, one becomes aware of the superficial and deep symbolism attached to…
Dec 15, 2015
CUBAN DEFECTORS VERSUS CUBAN BENEFACTORS: WHY THE AMERICANS FASCINATED WITH THE DEFECTORS
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…
Dec 15, 2015
CUBA AND AMERICA: ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY 17 DECEMBER 2015
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…
Dec 15, 2015
AN UMONHON NOZHITHI’A EN OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON
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…
Dec 15, 2015
WHY ARE EDUCATED IMMIGRANTS FROM INDIA SO ATTRACTED TO FRAUD IN THE USA ? THE CASE OF DOCTORS
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…
Dec 15, 2015
FRACTURED MEDICAL CARE IN TIME OF ARROGANCE OF BIOMEDICINE
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…
Dec 15, 2015
MY SISTER FRIEND FROM GRAYLAND, WASHINGTON
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…
Dec 15, 2015
WESTPORT, WASHINGTON USA AN ENTHUSIASTIC RETURN TO AMERICANA
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…
Dec 15, 2015
THE LUCKY ENDOCRINOLOGIST OF HAVANA..OUR ANTHROPOLOGIST IN CUBA
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…