Trish Patrick Blogs

If you are ever in Jakarta, Indonesia, there is a new hotel that you must see to believe. I love design and how people see and design space. The hotel looks and feels like Texas and Indonesia got together and had a baby. The interior designer for the hotel is from the US. The space…

Signing on! On my way to Sumatra!! Finishing my research! I worry about leaving my family. Momma has Alzheimer’s. Daddy is her primary caretaker. Tammy and Betsy (my sisters) are left to help out. I feel I am abandoning them. I worry about leaving Mike. He needs me. I worried about leaving Cooper (my dog—see…

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intentions of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘Wow! What a Ride!’” –Hunter Thompson I keep this quote from Hunter on…

I read the book Turtles All the Way Down by John Greene. The book was pretty good. He had a lot of good one-liners. This is not a one-liner, but I really resonate with what the passage says. This is how I view life. “I started thinking about turtles all the way down. I was…

After I returned from Taiwan, the university put me in quarantine. Quarantine meaning–I was not allowed to go to the university. Which was OK–the university was closed because of Coronavirus. People came here, but I did not go anywhere. Here is how a spent my time when I got bored. I fed the ants and…

Today Jung took me to the Fonghuanggu Bird and Ecology Park in Lugu Township, Taichung. Had the best time! The bird park is on a mountain. You walk down to the waterfall and it is down hill!!!! Thank goodness they took us back up on a golf cart. The park is beautiful! They have amazing…

I actually did work while in I was in Taiwan! To prove it I took photographs of the student group after I presented and lunch with the Education faculty at National Dong Hwa University. Campus is huge and beautiful. Did my morning run looking at the mountains surrounding the campus. The university hired a private…

OMG!!! Dr. Jung-Hua Yeh (my colleague at the National Museum of Natural Science in Taichung, Taiwan) kept me so busy this past week speaking at universities and visiting museums I have not had time to post. I hope you missed me and my adventures. The National Museum of Natural Science owns six separate venues: Space…

Spent today in Zuoying, Taiwan. If you go, check out the temples behind the train station. They are located around Lotus Lake at Kaohsiung. Buddhist and Tao temples. Beautiful places. You go in through the dragon and exit through the tiger. You shake the red half moons and throw them to ask Buddha for advice.…

I visited the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. The Museum did not have a lot of exhibits open, but I enjoyed what I saw. My favorite exhibits were the scratch and sniff (you scratch the picture and it smells like the title of the painting) and the artist sketching with a blindfold. The artist…