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Continue reading →: 🇹🇭 5 Things You Should Know About Thai CultureIn order to cope with the intense and glorious situation that is traffic, tourists and construction in my little world, I’ve been using the analogy of a “fish in water”. I keep telling myself that I am a fish in water, a fish swimming and gliding, and it helps me…
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Continue reading →: Punchbowl Cemetery
For last week’s poetry class, we had to write about our favorite place. And because I had done a similar exercise in high school theatre and for my L7 English class, my favorite place was readily accessible. We wrote for half an hour. This was my in the moment scribble,…
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Pung Tao Gong
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Continue reading →: Pung Tao GongI needed to go to a particular temple to “tam boon” or make merit, and on this particular day, I had company. We walked through Warorot Market, and found a festival of sorts had been set up, so we saw the food vendors and stopped by Pung Tao Gong, a…
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Continue reading →: The day I stopped wanting to be ThaiThe day I stopped wanting to be Thai happened in the winter of 2012. I just wanted to go to Sukhothai. I just wanted to go to Sukhothai. I just wanted to go to Sukhothai.
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Continue reading →: Perfectly acceptableSometimes we forget what was considered unacceptable back in our passport country, is perfectly acceptable here. We see it often but we walk around the motorbikes (or car) parked on the sidewalk, drive against traffic, jump the cue, or heaven forbid, pick our noses in public. We see the lack…
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Continue reading →: Wallpaper Thai (another look at American Asians in the wild)
When I first moved to Thailand, I experienced a bit of an identity crisis. Thais expected me to speak Thai. Thais were surprised when I didn’t. Thais tried to guess my ethnicity. It opened a different conversational door than from the typically perceived Caucasian expat.
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Continue reading →: How to be healthy during pollution season?
‘Tis the season to be sick! If I look at Doi Suthep I can see how polluted Chiang Mai is. If I can see the mountain, then that’s a good sign, if I can’t, that means bad things.
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Continue reading →: 💞 The day poetry saved me from myself (and why I love pillows).
I didn’t want to ask for man-help because I couldn’t figure out how to put the ink cartridge in my new printer. But that was just the beginning of a day of little disasters, and by disasters I mean doing nothing right, and basically feeling like a stupid fool.
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Something that wouldn’t fly in the United States…
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Continue reading →: Something that wouldn’t fly in the United States…Or if you would prefer an affirmative statement, “Something Thai” or “Those moments that let you know you are in Thailand”. This could be a fun collection. We expats have gotten used to seeing these kinds of things. Things that shock us or make us do a double take and/or…
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Continue reading →: 7 types of male expats you might find in Thailand(Alternative title: Let’s Meet the Rock Stars) To kick off the New Year, the Year of the Snake, 2556, 2013, etc, etc, and to celebrate 3 years in Chiang Mai, I started New Year’s Day, writing. This is meant in jest, as I feel I must explain, because I do…
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Continue reading →: Rules for going to CM Immigration
Today was my third attempt this week to go to Immigration to do my 90 day check in. My friend and I met there at 7.30 and wrote down our names on the list. But later we found out that Immigration is no longer using the list.
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Moo-gata Sunday
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Continue reading →: Moo-gata SundayLast Sunday was a day well-spent in Lamphun with my family. My cousins had the genius idea of having moo gata or “pork in a pan” at our house, so we started off, as we always do, stopping by my aunt’s store to pick up my aunt and her daughter and…
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Continue reading →: What I learned from going to Maejo’s Lantern release…There isn’t a lot of information on the World Wide Web, so I asked as many friends as I could, since I reside in this great city. I also learned a lot from attempting to go the year before. So here is my list. Please add yours!
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Continue reading →: Loy Kratong is like Thanksgiving, sort of.I wasn’t even aware that today was Thanksgiving until my friend told me. I’m not sure if this is sad or sublime. I have a Thai calendar and was mainly focused on Loy Kratong. Thanksgiving here is like Christmas in Hawaii, I’m not feeling it.
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Continue reading →: 🇹🇭 What Thais Want Tourists to KnowWould you wear a bikini to a church? If I was to share one Thailand travel tip, it would be, dress appropriately. The Internet and popular guide books will let you know that when entering a temple or wat, you need to cover your shoulders and (women) legs. But for…
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Continue reading →: Hair (not the musical)When I first heard Lady Gaga’s Hair, I thought it was brilliant because women strongly identify with their hair. All you have to do is watch any America’s Next Top Model makeover episode and you’ll see terribly attractive ingénues weeping for pity’s sake over their cherished locks being cut.
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Continue reading →: Students draw meMy friend and colleague JP inherited one of my previous classes. So she decided to have them write down what they learned in their prior level, and draw a picture of their former teacher, complete with descriptions.
Hello,
I’m Lani
Welcome to Life, the Universe, and Lani. I’ve been blogging about my experiences living abroad since 2009.
At this point, this site serves as an archive as I’m mostly active at No Girl is an Island 👉https://lanivcox.substack.com/ 🏝️where I have been both newslettering and continuing to craft personal essays on finding freedom in the fringes.
Thanks for stopping by, have a look around, and hope to see you over at No Girl is an Island.
Life, the Universe, and Lani 
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