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- There’s nothing wrong with asking for help (and why concepts like greng jai need to die)
- What does it mean to be Asian American?
- Can you use chopsticks?
- How has living abroad changed you?
- Pain, struggle, and the stories within us
- Life sucks until it doesn’t anymore
- What’s up with Asians and Whites?
- Thai Visa Run to Kuala Lumpur: A Practical Guide
- My struggle and relationship with stuff
- Closure on Cambodia
- How well do you know yourself? (and how to know yourself better)
- When life throws you a do-over (and you return from where you left)
- The problem with creatives, Asian daughters, and non-conformists.
- “Don’t be a little bitch” and other New Year’s Resolutions
- When your life is up in the air or taking a nose dive
- Looking back at 2017: a writer’s life
- What happened to creativity in music and the arts?
- Why is it so hard for women to accept themselves?
- Fish out of water: expat bloggers interview series #5
- The Paradox of Memoir Writing
- Seeking solitude and sanity in everyday life
- How the right books found me at the right times
- Reflecting on 2 years in Cambodia
- Sihanoukville, Kampot and Kep: 7 days and 6 nights
- Beyond Pub Street: where to eat in Siem Reap
- I did it! #365grateful challenge completed.
- What to do + what to buy when you get sick in SE Asia
- Do you have to be anti-social to be an artist?
- Chiang Mai versus Siem Reap: an expat weighs in
- 8 Things I’m Loving About Life Right Now
- 10 ways I’m finding my sanity this month
- How to listen to yourself (or go a little crazy)
- I’m Chinese, but I’m not Chinese
- I am Wonder Woman (an Asian American woman reflects on childhood female superheroes)
- 21 things my journal wants me to remember about 2016
- 7 wonderful days in Penang
- Living with lizards: a love story
- #365grateful halfway point, check-in and pit stop
- An Asian American expat musings on the post-election malaise
- Confessions of a brave and insecure memoir writer
- Day trip to Kulen Mountain!
- Celebrating 7 years abroad
- Tips for finding an apartment in Siem Reap
- A visit to Siem Reap’s floating villages
- How much space do I really need? (moving sucks)
- Confession: I have bad writing habits.
- Reflecting back on my first crazy year in Siem Reap
- What’s up with Asians obsession with white skin?
- Expat woes: working out at the gym and swimming pool
- Starting the #365grateful challenge
- Why I stopped reading women’s magazines
- How I dress + pack for SE Asia
- How’s my driving?
- A quick visit to Phnom Penh
- Do you speak broken English?
- Should you become an expat?
- Further impressions + updates on life in Siem Reap
- What’s your relationship with television?
- Taking the bus from Siem Reap to Battambang (and back again)
- Fish out of water: expat bloggers interview series #4
- New book cover (and the woes of book cover designs)
- Why not Battambang? (and things to do)
- Swimming
- Identity, what is it good for?
- Asian American American holidays
- I’ve been nominated for my blogging performance.
- A lifetime of eating impatiently (how we eat)
- Has living overseas + travel made you more patient?
- Behind the scenes: a blogging + writing life
- Why I love Angkor Wat
- The Expat Celebrity Syndrome
- Pictures of people taking pictures at Angkor Wat
- What happened to the summer job and why I now love my work history
- I’m on a winning reading streak
- Fish out of water: expat bloggers interview series #3
- At home in Siem Reap (part 2)
- At home in Siem Reap
- First impressions on living in Siem Reap
- Fish out of water: expat bloggers interview series #2
- 12 ways to enjoy Chiang Rai
- My minimalism journey // part one
- Fish out of water bloggers: expat interview series #1
- Tips for getting a good Thai massage
- Getting lost is NOT fun.
- Why moving to Cambodia is scary and exciting
- What they never told you about bra shopping in Thailand
- On morning routines, goals and habits
- Foods I love from Hawaii
- (An expat reflects) here versus there…
- Chinatown, Hawaii
- the urgency of today, going home, gaining perspective
- Long layovers in Korea and Bangkok
- When the power goes out in Thailand
- the missing teacher: a manifesto
- I’m going to Hawaii.
- Do you keep a journal?
- Its award season and I have nothing to wear.
- Why audiobooks?
- Forever 32 (I’m getting old and it’s not looking pretty)
- Which college courses had the most impact on you?
- Has living abroad changed the way you dress?
- What kind of reader are you?
- Things I’m liking (sharing the love) #3
- Why this Asian American never pursued acting.
- 12 things I’ve learned from traveling around Thailand
- How can I be a better writer?
- How yoga helps my writing
- Yes! I finally did it. I published my first book.
- Why I like blogging
- My Ubon Ratchathani story
- The traveler and expat pecking order
- Happy New Year from Chiang Rai, Thailand.
- The unbridled joy of travel
- Was it really stealing? Stealing is wrong.
- You catch my eye Chiang Rai (bugs and stuff)
- You catch my eye Chiang Rai
- Things I’m liking (sharing the love) #2
- Cimelo: Antique shop and coffee
- What is your relationship with food?
- Why do guys like crazy girls?
- Celebrating 5 years of blogging (and livin’) overseas
- Things I’m liking (sharing the love)
- 12 things I’ve learned about Chiang Rai (food shopping edition)
- Nong Khai’s Sala Keoku
- I hate the Vientiane visa run.
- Don’t call Thais short.
- Downtown Chiang Rai (in pics)
- When I was 12…
- What’s your comfort food?
- What’s on your desk? (and death to adverbs)
- Expats in Thailand (a character or two)
- 12 things I’ve learned about Chiang Rai (List #2)
- Just a view: Jet Yod Road Chiang Rai
- 6 month ghosts (unlock the mind)
- Liebster Award #2
- What were you like in high school?
- Setting goals (and lessons learned)
- What is inspiration?
- I quit liking things on FB and all I got was annoyed.
- Where in your life do you search or explore for new?
- 12 things I’ve learned about Chiang Rai…
- How has your name impacted you?
- [the Writing Process tour]
- Am I a feminist?
- Rai Mae Fah Luang Art and Cultural Park
- What were you like in college?
- I’ve been discontinued.
- ESL teaching resources and observations about teaching in Thailand
- A study of clouds
- Chiang Rai: First Impressions
- Wat Chetuphon in Chiang Rai
- How has Thailand changed you?
- My favorite WordPress.com feature
- Ode to Summer Colors
- In defense of beauty
- Food Addiction: Chiang Rai edition
- What is Chiang Rai Beach?
- At The Finish Line: Asian American In Thailand, Part 16
- Nangnon Coffee in Chiang Rai
- My #iamsubject Story
- The Black House Quandary in Chiang Rai
- Why do we look up?
- How to make your life more Thai!*
- Starting over, after the transition…
- Moving to Chiang Rai
- Transitions: Life’s waiting room
- Useful Tips for a Happy Holiday in Thailand (by TAT)
- DinDee Cafe and CMU Art Center
- Salad Terrace (from farm to fork)
- The Chinese in Chiang Mai
- Seeking balance in a social media world.
- Latchkey kids (or latchkey kids make pizza)
- Swearing.
- Another look at Huey Tung Tao
- Why I don’t compete with other writers (or teachers, bloggers or women)
- Stupid travels, too.
- What NOT to do on Valentine’s Day
- Why audio blog posts?
- What is tone in writing?
- Make me a better __________.
- Happy Chinese New Year (Year of the Horse)
- American Football, Family and God.
- Best of Chiang Mai (great list of things to do here!)
- Bo Sang Umbrella Festival
- 8 Ways Chiang Mai is like the American South
- Trendy Chiang Mai: What’s popular?
- Art in Paradise: 3D art in Chiang Mai
- Ten things Thailand has taught me (so far)
- My favorite posts from 2013
- Where do Chiang Mai expats like to eat?
- Jing Jai Market
- Coming of Age through Travel
- Poetry before pictures
- How to deal with Internet bullies (and trolls, and real bullies too).
- Should Asian American parents be teaching their kids to be more Asian?
- ‘Tis that depressing time of year again, the holidays.
- Sweet November
- My first sky lantern
- What’s happening to Chiang Mai? (or why CM is starting to suck)
- Why expats (outsiders) are good for a community
- What’s that one special story?
- Tips for enjoying Chiang Mai’s Loy Krathong Festival
- Office work was my Halloween
- In search of quiet: Sangdee Gallery
- What brought you to Thailand?
- Shifts (in perception, not flimsy nighties)
- Why I Love Lists
- Taking the Green Bus from Chiang Mai to Chiang Rai
- Anania Circle
- Polluted Chiang Mai, worth my health?
- Life before expat
- #CTC13 | “Capture the Color” 2013
- Teaching in Thailand Etiquette
- A Bug’s Life in Chiang Mai
- Weekend Getaway to Phayao
- The 7 types of Thai masseurs you might encounter in Thailand
- Tell-Thai Heart is moving here!
- Should you be a one post wonder? (niche vs lifestyle blogging)
- Age of Aquarium: a visit to the Chiang Mai Zoo
- What is rejection?
- 7 Outdated Stereotypes about Teaching in Thailand
- Big 7 Blogging Mistakes (and how to avoid them!)
- Lesson Planning Advice from EFL teachers (part 2)
- Why I Fear List Posts
- Gin Salat (Thailand’s day of the dead)
- Poetry and jazz
- Who do you write for? (an audience or you?)
- When I started to read and write (part 2)
- Around town – again 🙂
- How I got my EFL job: Asian Americans can teach English in Asia
- When I started to read and write (part 1)
- Why I write
- The art of note passing
- When I knew I would travel…
- Fishes and flowers
- Memoirs’ bad reputation (and breaking in).
- What Expats Don’t Talk About (Part 2)
- Everyday food sampler from Chiang Mai
- Liebster Award (pay it forward)
- How to order Thai street food and hail a red truck.
- 10 Useful Sites for Chiang Mai
- Your weekly dose of Chiang Mai
- A typical Waldorf classroom and how it relates to teaching EFL
- 10 things to consider buying upon moving to Thailand
- Around Town
- Lesson Planning Advice from EFL Teachers
- Finally got on YouTube
- How Students are Misunderstood in the EFL Classroom
- Looking Back: My favorite pics from Ecuador
- 7 Strange Thai Beauty Products and Treatments
- Who is Tell-Thai Heart?
- Mistakes Old Teachers Make
- Life, the Universe and Lani
- Chiang Mai to Sukhothai and back again
- Fischerspooner
- Jia Tong Heng & Mingmitr
- Rant about men and work in the Land of Smiles
- Back to work!
- Where to Songkran in Chiang Mai
- No Smorking!
- 11 Ways to Meet the Police During Songkran
- Food near Tha Phae Gate
- What You Need to Know About Songkran สงกรานต์
- Mistakes New Teachers Make
- Chinese girl on the outskirts of Beijing
- Influences
- yellow bug
- My heart is here.
- Wonder Bread Chop Suey
- 5 Things You Should Know About Thai Culture
- Punchbowl Cemetery
- Pung Tao Gong
- You’re embarrassing
- washing sidewalk dreams
- The day I stopped wanting to be Thai
- Perfectly acceptable
- Wallpaper Thai (another look at American Asians in the wild)
- How to be healthy during pollution season?
- The new smart phone is here!
- Top Things To Do Before Getting on a Motorbike
- Gad Luang Fights Depression
- Oh no, not more poetry..
- The day poetry saved me from myself (and why I love pillows).
- Something that wouldn’t fly in the United States…
- 7 types of male expats you might find in Thailand
- Grace, the Fine Bakery
- Looking Back: 2012
- Vieng Joon On Teahouse
- Thailand teaches me body language
- Schools of Hope
- Rules for going to CM Immigration
- Wat Pan Tao
- 5 Things to Hate about Chiang Mai
- Moo-gata Sunday
- What I learned from going to Maejo’s Lantern release…
- Happy Loy Kratong!
- Loy Kratong is like Thanksgiving, sort of.
- Cafe de Thaan Aoan
- What Thais Want Tourists to Know
- Adventures in EFL teaching (the games we play)
- Death and Dying
- Before and After Thailand
- Hair (not the musical)
- Hair
- The story behind Thai Girl Talk
- Students draw me
- I love Ginger House!
- Adventures in EFL (love is in the air)
- Always something at Tha Phae Gate
- Adventures in EFL teaching (mistakes were made)
- The Head and the Heart – Rivers & Roads
- Adventures in EFL teaching (stage 1)
- Another great moment in Thailand
- Adventures in EFL teaching (time trial)
- Adventures in EFL teaching (prologue)
- If there were no men left in this world…
- Where to find the toilet in Thailand
- A hot day at the market
- 9 reasons Chiang Mai sucks
- A new favorite…
- Julia’s lesson plans
- This week…
- Is it easy to make friends in Chiang Mai?
- Grumble, grumble…
- Practicing Generosity
- Why do we take pictures?
- Welcome to my new site!
- Remembering to be grateful
- @ Girasole
- What I wished I knew before coming to Thailand
- The cliché on my clothes, not a Monica Lewinsky story.
- Ladies Who Lunch
- What are Chiang Mai apartments like?
- I spy…
- Motorbike initiations, Becoming an expat
- Post work food stall dinner
- Why are Americans so loud?
- City bug
- In response to “Chiang Mai isn’t edgy enough”
- Warrorot market
- The year of the cat, has come to an end
- Pippin remembers
- Thailand for the directionally challenged
- How to Avoid Looking like Tourist Trash
- Grasshopper bird
- How to Pack for Thailand!
- Everyday life
- Thailand is the Wild Wild West.
- The gift of first generation American
- Bully Bowl
- The problem with holidays, evolution
- It’s not a stick bug, so what is it?
- What you need to teach…
- L5 summer 2 class
- The ultimate meditation retreat, living abroad.
- J1 summer2 name poems
- Do hi-so Thais lack culture?
- Paper airplane bug
- Romeo in repose
- How Hawaii prepared me for Thailand
- Girls like me
- Self service
- Two for tuesday
- An expat’s life: learning to grow slow
- @ Smoothie blues
- Is Chiang Mai Safe?
- Doing time in thailand
- Taking your cat to the vet AGAIN, Thai style
- Wat pan on
- Voices: Whispers from Around the World
- Yes, it’s real…
- My Thai is getting better: True or False?
- When the master’s away, the cats will play…
- From Chiang Mai, with love (Why I like living in Chiang Mai)
- Holiday Inn
- Sounds like Thailand
- A very Thai pillow
- Does Thailand lack originality?
- I’m sooo high!
- White people in Chiang Mai: It’s an expat jungle out there…
- Muang mai market!
- Goodbye 2011…thank you for writing
- Christmas in Chiang Mai
- Shopping in Thailand
- Merry Christmas from Pippin & Romeo
- Quick Chiang Mai starter guide
- I love my juniors!
- 10 things I learned from my first year of teaching ESL
- Money
- Impermanence of life
- The holidays
- Why do (expat) bloggers blog?
- Loy Loy Kratong…hope yours was the best.
- What’s your favorite food?
- Pepsi challenge gone ramen
- The McDonalds Factor
- What makes a good teacher?
- Meet Albert
- The Sims expat
- Shameless plug friday
- Bake ‘n Bite
- Taking your cat to the vet, Thai style
- Cone of shame
- A Chiang Mai morning…
- Another wordless wednesday in Thailand.
- What expats don’t talk about
- Quit bugging me
- Learning Thai “ah-ha!” moment
- Reuse, reduce, recycle
- Missionaries in Chiang Mai
- Let’s pretend it’s wednesday
- Going to immigration can be fun!
- Romeo in Chiang Mai
- Being an expat kind of sucks
- Hey mister bug!
- A year in Thailand, reflection
- Alien in Chiang Mai
- Tom and Kitty’s houseboat
- Pai Yan Yai Coffee
- Expat inconveniences…
- What does raang mean?
- Level 2 English class
- Thailand vs Impatience
- Tour de cats (cat and mouse)
- What happens when good girls get tagged…
- Hello friend!
- โชคดี (good luck), What is luck?
- I heart kasem & ramen noodles
- I live in thailand
- and this bug? or this thing???
- What I miss most. . .
- Jellicle cats
- Not American enough
- What’s this bug?
- Celebrating similarities
- For Mia ~ miss you
- Men are insensitive bastards
- Jacky at the cat house!
- Expat living rocks
- Life is good. . .
- San Patong Market
- Interview: Lani on Chiang Mai Country Living
- The best croissants in Chiang Mai
- Half Thai, lôok krêung, ลูกครึ่ง
- The tell tail tale
- What does love have to do with it?
- Chiang Mai lizard
- Trading in the Old City for Chiang Mai country living
- Meet the cats
- Unlearning Thai
- My favorite walk (huey tung tao)
- Teaching in Chiang Mai (early impressions)
- Serenity now
- Why Thailand
- Chiang Dao caves
- Should Thailand be like US?
- Gin Salat
- Thailandcrazy
- Living with the tiger
- I am man hear me roar
- Laos visa run (in pictures!)
- The reversal
- Goin’ native
- Ode to influences
- Mom and Dad
- Vegetarian (and Coffee Culture) Chiang Mai
- What getting sick means to me
- Vegetarian expats (or MC Hammer wants his pants back)
- Society pages
- Dr doo doo (part 2)
- Dr look (mŏr doo) หมอดู
- @2010
- How to tell if he’s a player
- “Looking Thai”
- Help me
- Learning Thai is making me a better English teacher
- Dust bunnies vs tile floors
- Working with zombie energy, not against it
- Vientiane visa run part 2 (when things go wrong)
- Thailand is a poem
- The left-handed motorbike
- Misconceptions of expats
- Mistakes were made
- Asian invasion
- Why I expat
- Me love you long time (Thai women vs White women)
- Vientiane visa run from Chiang Mai
- Who am i?
- How to heal a broken heart (or my welcome back to Thailand)
- Thailand and back again
- Day trips from Cuenca: a sampler
- Free things to do in Cuenca
- Goodbye Cuenca (and the 7 types of ESL students)
- An Asian American in Ecuador
- The long way around
- Left behind
- Limits of language
- Chinese fire drill
- Where to eat in Cuenca
- Our judgments
- Something to follow
- Konichiwa
- Woman vs man
- How things work (when expat life comes together)
- An Asian American in South America
- My parents
- Over my head
- Thailand vs Ecuador
- The other side of Thai
- How to travel around Chiang Mai like a pro
- Pàt tai = French fry
- Sweet and sour on rice
- Air supply: I can’t breathe in Chiang Mai.
- Great expectations
- Pôot paa-săa tai dâi nít nòi
- Daytrips + things to do around Chiang Mai
- Ladies, we’re all beautiful. Now, quit comparing.
- Burnt rice, crispy pride
- Oh, don’t be such a pad thai
- The color of English
- Beauty in restraint
- @myself
- CM corner poetry
- We’re Asian, we don’t do like that
- Phases of an expat
- Two baht Christmas
- An Expat in Gratitude
- Pasa Thai
- A fist full of chickens
- How men are the most stupid
- My fear of motorbikes in Thailand
- Siam I am
- What is culture?
- Intensive Thai
- “Culture shock”
- Living in Thailand
- Ground control
- (my original) About Me
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