tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58055649933559876942024-03-07T00:11:14.846-06:00nothing but HAT'shathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06235288891203357788noreply@blogger.comBlogger927125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805564993355987694.post-56874729666122413322016-02-07T10:16:00.001-06:002016-02-07T10:16:38.625-06:00Mud Pie: Vegan Bakery & Coffeehathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06235288891203357788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805564993355987694.post-57032911010447838542013-04-22T00:05:00.001-05:002016-03-06T20:59:43.998-06:00Tulips at Forest Park near Jewel BoxThese beautiful tulips make me happy. What a wonderful way to welcome Earth Day!
hathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06235288891203357788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805564993355987694.post-30865776309192193792013-04-21T23:35:00.001-05:002016-03-06T21:00:48.384-06:00Spring has comeWeather has been crazy wild in St. Louis these past few months. But, this weekend was gorgeous. Spring has sprung, I think, and everything looks more beautiful and more lovely.
hathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06235288891203357788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805564993355987694.post-165201642566661612013-03-31T01:29:00.001-05:002013-03-31T01:29:12.042-05:00Jigsaw puzzle for relaxationhathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06235288891203357788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805564993355987694.post-6692830415488170342013-03-31T01:28:00.001-05:002013-03-31T01:28:20.939-05:00Fruit tarts in phyllo cupshathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06235288891203357788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805564993355987694.post-73609449875256576522013-03-30T23:17:00.001-05:002013-03-30T23:17:30.205-05:00Buttercream flowershathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06235288891203357788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805564993355987694.post-29166152536450635982013-03-30T23:08:00.001-05:002013-03-30T23:08:04.110-05:00Cupcake ShoesA friend sent me a picture of some shoes made out of cupcakes and cookies. She asked if I could reproduce it, so my sister and I tried our hand at making them. For design ideas, we went onto the websites for Nordstrom shoes, 6pm.com, and poeticlicence.com (my favorite London shoe brand) and spent two hours coming up with the designs. Then we spent 5 hours from 10pm to 3am to make the shoes.hathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06235288891203357788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805564993355987694.post-31487778055580751482013-03-30T22:58:00.001-05:002013-03-30T22:58:43.015-05:00Easter Cupcakes: matcha green tea cupcakesMatcha green tea cupcakes
Hersheys chocolate robin eggs
Noodles dipped in dark fondue chocolate
Pretzel sticks dipped in chocolate
Buttercream icing and dark cacao
hathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06235288891203357788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805564993355987694.post-53935214807715716532013-03-30T22:52:00.001-05:002013-03-30T22:52:49.416-05:00Easter CupcakesThese are vanilla cupcakes. hathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06235288891203357788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805564993355987694.post-28945778049219394012012-05-05T16:51:00.001-05:002012-05-05T16:51:08.833-05:00Missouri Botanical GardenDespite the heat and humidity in the air, people were out in droves walking the Bot Garden. Beautiful skies, cool breezes under the shades, and colorful flowers in bloom... Lifted my spirit a thousandfold!
Preparations are underway for the Lantern Festival later this month... Very exciting.
hathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06235288891203357788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805564993355987694.post-3142903325788370632012-04-27T15:57:00.001-05:002012-04-27T15:57:30.719-05:00Longfellow HouseNo, I am no different. Here I am, reveling in this incredible opportunity to visit an old, falling down, empty house... A mere shell of space where once dwelled the spirit of that great writer.  I, too, must sit in this garden and bask in the sunlit serenity. I, too, must marvel at this house, if only from the outside (the house is closed for this season until June 1). I feel silly, and yet,hathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06235288891203357788noreply@blogger.com0West Cambridge, Cambridge42.377445 -71.13594tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805564993355987694.post-46730576332780206882012-03-24T00:20:00.001-05:002012-03-24T00:27:15.140-05:00Sunset at Newport BeachBeautiful sunset, when the world looks perfect and filled with new promises...
hathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06235288891203357788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805564993355987694.post-14674531477458864522012-03-22T23:51:00.001-05:002012-03-22T23:51:01.252-05:00Gutenberg Window in Denison Library at Scripps CollegeIn a college dedicated to the formation of women, there is this giant stained glass window -- beautiful, glorious, multifaceted -- and the two central figures are male: Gutenberg and Ben Franklin.
Irony.
The theme centers around an inscription: "Dedicated to the greater wisdom of women."
hathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06235288891203357788noreply@blogger.com0Claremont, Claremont34.096676 -117.71978tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805564993355987694.post-58187304298173354052012-03-18T19:19:00.001-05:002012-03-18T19:19:13.326-05:00Tan Le on TED: http://on.ted.com/AiOu
hathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06235288891203357788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805564993355987694.post-34122478877618633142012-03-18T00:45:00.000-05:002012-03-18T00:45:10.902-05:00Finding Our Spaces: Niebuhr House
Welcome to the Niebuhr House. It's not really anything so formal, but I like calling it the Niebuhr House to remind myself that back in the early 1900s, a smart, old German theologian lived in my house. He is long dead and buried, but I suspect his spirit lives on somewhere nearby.
We make such commotion about what a space is called, don't we? The space in this little three bedroom house hathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06235288891203357788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805564993355987694.post-71729824951240501392012-03-18T00:18:00.002-05:002012-03-18T00:18:28.072-05:00Cedars, an Online Literary Journal, goes .com
One of the most powerful ways we can change the communities in which we live, and the world which we inhabit, is through the power of words. Ordinarily, I forget that I (and you and we together) have immense capacity for making good, for wielding this power for the greater benefit of all. So, a little while ago, I was lucky enough, and still feel so, to have been invited to join the editorial hathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06235288891203357788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805564993355987694.post-39464043881836031592012-03-17T22:32:00.003-05:002012-03-17T22:42:15.137-05:00Feasting with Dragons: Dragon Party 2012
(Dragon Cake by Cakemaster Roger Bridgewater)
In true Tran Clan fashion, we decided to celebrate the Year of the Dragon by throwing a Dragon Party.
I handmade some invitations, complete with Borgia maps and dragons, and distributed them to some old and new friends in the area. We debated whether or not to extend interstate invitations, but decided in the end that it was quite too far for our hathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06235288891203357788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805564993355987694.post-86306281362006559432012-02-01T21:46:00.000-06:002012-02-01T21:47:15.595-06:00Tet Nham Thin: Year of the Dragon, 2012
Bold. Vibrant. Flamboyant. Nham Thin promises to be an extraordinary year. For almost all of us, the Year of the Dragon will bring exciting new changes. This is the year to stay on our toes, to focus on growth, creativity, challenges. Take risks; be inventive; be bold. Take the opportunities when they arise, because dragons soar and tigers leap...
For goats like me, this is a call hathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06235288891203357788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805564993355987694.post-88458731714271018432012-02-01T20:14:00.000-06:002012-02-01T20:14:39.098-06:00One Whole VoiceOne Whole Voice Various"Poems ask us not to understand in the same way that we often find ourselves not comprehending the possibility of a God in this world."hathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06235288891203357788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805564993355987694.post-64544694493270482252012-01-31T22:06:00.001-06:002012-02-01T21:47:15.590-06:00Hic Sunt DraconesThe Tran Clan is blessed, or challenged, depending on how close you get to the firebreathers, with not one but TWO dragons in our lair. Both my sister, The Elder, and my mom, Six Queo, are dragons in their own right.
One is a fire dragon; the other water dragon. Both are courageous, strong, intelligent, and sharp as dragon claws.
I, on the other hand, am Ky Mui -- a lowly Earth Goat (or, Ram, hathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06235288891203357788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805564993355987694.post-91119995996016392652012-01-28T00:09:00.001-06:002012-01-28T00:09:22.148-06:00In bloom2012 begins auspiciously for the Tran Clan. Travels abound for all parties involved, and we begin to think there is a bit of give in the strings that tie us all together. Not too much, but not too little, either.
Winter weather has gentled compared to last year, but despite our relief, I see too much climate change to feel completely at ease. See the amaryllis? Beautiful bloom, but it reminds mehathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06235288891203357788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805564993355987694.post-23989090623718597992011-08-03T19:53:00.001-05:002011-08-03T19:53:32.641-05:00View from Amtrak train, northboundhathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06235288891203357788noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805564993355987694.post-51090872369282876642011-07-22T22:42:00.001-05:002011-07-22T22:42:13.924-05:00Entering EdenThis is the view when driving onto the campus of Eden Seminary in Webster Groves...
hathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06235288891203357788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805564993355987694.post-66252410034076570352011-07-05T18:38:00.001-05:002011-07-05T18:38:42.710-05:00Reminds me of Malaysiahathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06235288891203357788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805564993355987694.post-55605564080211953692011-07-03T15:18:00.001-05:002011-07-03T15:18:14.309-05:00July 3rd Thunderstormhathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06235288891203357788noreply@blogger.com0Eden Theological Seminary, 475 East Lockwood Avenue, Saint Louis, MO, United States38.591452 -90.344776