Feb 15, 2022
WE WILL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS
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…
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Feb 15, 2022
A SONG FROM UKRAINE, INSPIRING AGAINST THE INVADERS
I have been much absorbed by the tragedy unfolding in Ukraine. The silver lining is the resilience of the people, their optimism, their undiluted patriotism and the moral strength of…
Feb 15, 2022
MOVEABLE FEAST OR A FEAST THAT MOVES? PARIS HAVANA AND CAMBODIA
Once you are Paris for a while, you begin to understand what Ernest Hemingway meant by MOVEABLE FEAST Many of the places described in this book still stand and I…
Feb 15, 2022
SHABBAT SHALOM ON THIS DAY WITH HEARTFELT THOUGHTS ABOUT UKRAINE AND ITS POPULATION
The sun was about to set on this Friday evening in Miami. What is like for people of Kyiv, Kharkhiv and Lviv and throughout the length and breadth of Ukraine?…
Feb 15, 2022
AFTER A DAY IN THE PARK TAKING CARE OF ITS INDIGENOUS POPULATION, 30 MINUTES OF VIPASSANA AND ITS EFFECT ON THE BLOOD PRESSURE
When it is 10 pm in Miami, it is 6 30 am in Tehran and the city is waking up A friend of mine from there joins me in 30…
Feb 15, 2022
AN ENDOCRINOLOGIST/ANTHROPOLOGIST AT WORK: NATIONAL PARK
If you wish to lead an unconventional life, you have to plan to undertake unconventional path to your life including your family life, your career and your places of residence,…
Jan 15, 2022
SAINT PIERRE QUIBERON, A SEASIDE TOWN IN BRITTANY IN THE QUIBERON PENINSULA
This small town which thrives on tourism was all but deserted, with no movement of either people or cars in the streets. Nothing was open, except the pharmacy busy with…
Jan 15, 2022
DAY TRIP TO L’ORIENT IN BRITTANY
L'Orient, a town in Brittany has a long history and during the second world war it was razed to the ground and every thing we see now was built since…
Jan 15, 2022
LE PETITE POETE DE CÔTE SAUVAGE
Many years ago I met the Le Petite Poete de Côte Sauvage. She was three years old at that time and in a rather neruda-esque description, she said to me…
Jan 15, 2022
24 HOURS IN NANTES, FRANCE.. UNEXPECTED PLEASURES GALORE.. A WONDERFUL WELCOME TO 2022
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…
Jan 15, 2022
COMING BACK TO CÔTE SAUVAGE AND THE FANTASTIC SENSATION OF LIFE’S AFFECTION
This has been an unexpected trip and not well prepared trip at all. But every day, unexpected pleasures have come my way. On arriving at the Madrid Airport, after a…
Jan 15, 2022
A DAY IN THE EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK, JUST A SMALL PART OF IT
I am lucky to be visiting this national park on a regular basis and occasionally get it to see it close. There are birds aplenty these days Ibis Herons Egret…