Category: journal

  • MY TCM RECIPES – I’M MY OWN RESOURCE

    I have a ton of books all strewn around in my apartment – and weekly linger around in the libraries between North Hollywood and West Hollywood.

  • EXPLAINING LOW END INCOME

    EXPLAINING THE INEQUALITY DILEMMA OF LOW END INCOME The 99 percent movement popping up in all parts of the world indicate an accumulative displeasure to our unbalanced wealth and power distribution. Some of these protesters are poorly guided while aggressively waving signs and shouting their quarrels – it is a growing group expressing an aversion against…

  • A TOILET PROJECT FOR THE JUNIOR SCHOOL IN POOPOH, SULAWESI

    A TOILET PROJECT FOR THE JUNIOR SCHOOL IN POOPOH, SULAWESI After I left Sulawesi in 2007 and returned to the US, my bond with a little village of Poopoh (coconut) not butt) was now a part of my life. For the 260 families, a tiny simple school was the only chance for kids to enter…

  • ALC 10 Aids Life Cycle(Aids Ride California)

    The annual ALC (ADIS lifecycle) is a 545-mile bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles to raise funds that support the Centers’ missions in California in their fight to eliminate HIV.

  • VOTE A DUTY BESTOWED TO ALL

    THINKING ABOUT VOTE AND DUTY WHILE WRITING RECIPES… I should write about the newest TCM recipes or at least work on the school curriculum I wrote to teach medicinal food preperations to chefs, medical professionals, and nutritionists. Still, two weeks before the mid-term elections, I can’t resist pondering about politics, a topic that is very…

  • Happy Birthday America

    The question we should ask is simple: How can we help each other. To start finger-pointing or pretend non est factum is wasting time that should be invested in turning your positive perceptions into future-oriented productivity.

  • TCMchef Raphael Gamon solution to Healthcare

    There is a tendency in the American healthcare and political culture that handicaps people in the United States: The healthcare system is set up to treat only the disorder’s symptoms instead of tackling problems by fixing the origin of what makes us ill.

  • Scuba diving on Vieques, PR

    There is something about Latin pride, the urge for the fiesta in the heat, and inviting family life when traveling down to Puerto Rico. Many of my American friends don’t even realize that Vieques in the Caribbean is US commonwealth…

  • REFLECTION ABOUT LIFE & DEATH

    But the choices we have before us are mostly multiple… We tend to be influenced by a need to stay young. At any age or circumstance, we readjust that boundary. We shave off some qualities and readjust. Melancholy aside, we have eery adaptability. Being alive is adjusting daily, weekly, yearly… Very banal, indeed!

  • Fixing your personal economy

    I compare the news with the reality of the unmaintained, broken streets, rotten bridges, and neglected unfinished constructions. That personal economic change in our lifestyle is scary!