Jan 15, 2026
Anthropological Reflection: Medicine Without Walls
A reflection on medicine as relationship: food, listening, care, and presence beyond the clinic.
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Jan 15, 2026
France and My Introduction to Champagne
A personal note on France, Champagne, taste, and the cultural education of pleasure.
Jan 15, 2026
Dark Night, Whirlpools, and the Limits of Consolation
A meditation after Hafez on grief, uncertainty, and the limits of easy consolation.
Dec 15, 2025
Babies Without Diapers: What the Amazon Teaches Us About Care
Along the vast arteries of the Amazon River, Indigenous societies have raised infants for millennia without what the modern world considers indispensable: diapers. This is not an absence born of…
Dec 15, 2025
Worldliness as Cultural Capital: Notes on International Childhood
A reflection on international childhood, independence, and the early-acquired cultural capital that shapes how children move through the world.
Nov 15, 2025
I Am an Exile Only Because I Have No Desire to Return
A meditation on Istanbul, memory, wandering, and the strange freedom of exile without nostalgia for return.
Nov 15, 2025
It Is Easy to Learn to Speak English Poorly
It Is Easy to Learn to Speak English Poorly by Yehuda Kovesh MD (London), FRAI (London) A Frenchman’s Remark A French academician once observed: “English is a language that is…
Sep 15, 2025
Early Morning in Cochin on the Last Day of the Jewish Year 5785
A morning walk in Cochin becomes a field note on sea air, faith, health, and everyday public life.
Sep 15, 2025
Upper Class but Homeless: Nostalgia for Iran
A multilingual reflection on Iran, hospitality, exile, and the ache of belonging from afar.
Sep 15, 2025
The Magnet of Alligator Alcatraz
A political and anthropological reflection shaped by Suriname, migration, medicine, and the pull of difficult places.
Aug 15, 2025
The First Cuban Restaurant in Miami, with the Soul of 1960s Havana
A Miami food memory that connects Cuban exile, restaurants, nostalgia, and the soul of Havana.
Aug 15, 2025
Cochin: Harmony Among the Inhabitants of All Faiths
A reflection on Fort Cochin, interdenominational life, and the quiet coexistence of many faiths.