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Continue reading →: If there were no men left in this world…
I thought I was semi-plugged in to the Thai music scene due to my students but I had no idea about Christy Gibson! Her parents moved to Thailand when she was 6 years old and she’s one of those rare foreigners who sings in Thai! I found out about her…
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Continue reading →: Where to find the toilet in Thailand
How to find a public toilet in Thailand is as tricky as finding a rubbish bin. Of course, there are some places where a respectable receptacle can be found easily, like in Chiang Rai, but in Chiang Mai, well, its perplexing business.
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Continue reading →: 9 reasons Chiang Mai sucksThe ex just told me he is thinking of moving back to Chiang Mai. Noooooooo!
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Continue reading →: Julia’s lesson plansI’ve been here for 2 years, so I’ve seen a lot of friends come and go. One of the perks of knowing a transient population is you get to rummage through their castoffs and leftovers. Many of my clothes are hand me downs (thank you Aofie, Melanie, Sara, Yuko, Mia,…
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Continue reading →: Is it easy to make friends in Chiang Mai?Somebody, let’s call him Peter, emailed me recently about wanting to know what life in Chiang Mai was like. He wants to retire here and make friends. So that got me thinking about other people who have contacted me and the kinds of questions they have asked.
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Continue reading →: Practicing Generosity
When I see beggars on the street, I never know what to do. But then I remember my mom, and watching her when we came to Thailand in 1989. Before we visited family in Lamphun, we were in Bangkok enjoying Mahboonkrong or MBK Center in all its shopping glory.
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Remembering to be grateful
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Continue reading →: Remembering to be gratefulWordless Wednesdays are going to turn into my gratitude journal or gratitude pictures. I was already thinking about new categories, tags, labels since a new look for my site coming up! But the idea came together through a couple of blogs, sheof108names and Susannah Conway’s August challenge, and finally through writing for my other blog. I…
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Continue reading →: 🇹🇭 What I wished I knew before coming to ThailandMy mom was born here before Thai food became as edgy and hip-hop as Pad Thai noodles, before the Vietnam War put Thailand on the US map. Before Thailand became the Hail Mary pass for dirty Jesus wannabes and lonely horny old men. But that didn’t make me any more…
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Continue reading →: What are Chiang Mai apartments like?Living spaces in Thailand are so different that the US. Sometimes I peek into apartments and wonder how much space people need in order to feel happy. Apartments in Thailand, well, let’s talk about Chiang Mai since this is where I live, are tiny in comparison to the luxuriousness of…
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Continue reading →: Motorbike initiations, Becoming an expatI’ve heard it said that driving around Chiang Mai is like playing a video game. My friend Denali compared traffic to a river, and all you needed to do was just gently flow into the river. I equate driving a motorbike to the 5 d’s of dodgeball: dodge, duck, dip,…
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City bug
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Continue reading →: City bugmy welcome to the neighborhood! maybe this means, i’ll still see unusual bugs in the city too!
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Continue reading →: In response to “Chiang Mai isn’t edgy enough”The voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. by Marcel Proust is my favorite quote from my youth. And something I’ve revisited recently since I left the country for two weeks and returned to find Thailand feeling different, new and fresh.
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Warrorot market
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Continue reading →: Warrorot marketthis is in my new neighborhood! warrorot market!!!
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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