Award-winning columnist and South Pacific eye surgeon, David Khorram, brings together the most popular pieces from his Saipan Tribune column, Better Living. Whether exploring the spiritual side of prosperity, describing the raw joy of someone regaining sight, or recounting the humor of an island phone call, Dr. Khorram manages to reach the mind, the heart and the funny-bone. With this book in hand, expect to laugh out loud and to ponder life's big questions.
"I use this book, along with Tuesday's with Morrie, to give my students something meaningful to read."
Kirk Johnson, PhD, University of Guam
"Intelligent, compassionate, thoughtful and wise, David brings gentle humor to higher thinking. A joy to read, his insights offer a rich model for living well."
Senator Maria Frica T. Pangelinan
15th Northern Marianas Legislature
"Somewhere inside David Khorram's head, three wise men have collided with the Three Stooges."
Lt Cmdr Randy Clark, retired
United States Coast Guard
"Dr. Khorram shares glimpses of life that bemuse and inspire. This delightful medley entertains us while opening our eyes to the bigger picture of what it means to be human."
"Consider this the Chicken Soup for the Soul of Micronesia."
Bob Coldeen, Author of Bumps in Paradise
DAVID KHORRAM, MD. As a young eye surgeon, Dr. David Khorram left the offers awaiting him in American's leading medical centers, and boarded a plane for the South Pacific, never to return. Starting in exotic Pago Pago, David has traveled, worked and lectured in villages, hospitals and huts throughout the Pacific. As a writer, he is the recipient of a Governor's Humanities Award. The founder of Marianas Eye Institute, Dr. Khorram is listed in Guide to America's Top Ophthalmologists. David, his wife Mara, and their four energetic children live on the island of Saipan, in the Marianas archipelago.
CONTENTS
- An Easy Way to Happiness
- A Typhoon Called Diabetes
- Tsunamis and the Mariana Islands
- Reality: Material or Spiritual?
- Prosperity: More than the Economy
- Touch the Heart of an Artist
- The Inconvenience of Peace
- A First Essential of Peaceful Relationships
- Look in the Mirror
- Benefiting from Life’s Tests
- Truthfulness: The Foundation
- Deviant Behaviors
- Medically Underserved
- Race, Ethnicity and Medicine
- Medical Education
- What is Your Destiny?
- Seven Reasons Not to Mess with a Child
- A New Kind of Election
- If You and I Meet on New Year’s Eve
- Successful Weight Loss
- Sweet Sight
- Religious Superiority
- A Sneaky Thief
- Putting Winning Aside
- Secondhand Pee
- Fight Back
- I ♥ Heroin
- Organic Smoke (and Mirrors)
- Fighting Rising Crime
- Hyperbaric Oxygen Chambers
- Beautify CNMI and Hope
- Thanksgiving Diet
- The Next 100 Years
- The Relationship Between Moral Health and a Blind Wife
- Time Slowed Down
- Saipan Dining Adventures
- Thoughts of a Father
- Reading Deprivation
- Pleasantly Out of the Loop
- Revolutionary New Treatment for Diabetes
- My Grandma Banoo & Her Yogurt
- How to Eat Out with Kids and Keep Your Dignity
- The Community’s Untapped Resource
- Where Do You Live?
- The Golden Rule
- Work Ethic
- Smiley Eels and Boonie Dogs
- The Tide
- Sex, Cancer Vaccines and Restraint
- Magic and Medicine
- Gross National Happiness
- Gecko Tails
Acclaim for this Book
Foreword - Kirk Johnson, PhD
Introduction - David Khorram
