✍🏼 Elsewhere

Despite writing since I was 13, I was late to blog, and later still to publish elsewhere. But I hope you find some humor and heart in the writings below. Thanks.

@Oldster Letter to My Younger Self #3: About What Happened in Chinatown

@Zibby Mag How I Embrace My Asian American Culture and Celebrate Thanksgiving

@The Foreigner Blog First Generation Asian American BINGO

@The Haven What are spirit animals? And do I need to take mine to the vet?

@Parhelion Literary Magazine Writing as an Act of Service

@Drunk Monkeys Jumpsuits: Not Just for Air-Raids Anymore!

@Points in Case Goodnight, Loser and other rejected children’s stories

@Little Old Lady Comedy Never Suffer from Feng Shui Again

@Pif Magazine Don’t Write on an Empty Stomach

@Work Literary Magazine
Office work poem

@Holl & Lane Magazine
Life lessons after 8 years of teaching

@Innovate My School
How I became an expat teacher: USA to Thailand

@Writing Ourselves Well & Kate Colby
Interview [part of a indie writers blog tour]

@Teaching Traveling
Teaching Abroad as an Asian American in Ecuador and Thailand

@The Lady Errant
Kitchen Culture [growing up Thai-American]

@A Holistic Journey
Asian American in Thailand [part of an in-depth series on race and color]

@Women Writers, Women Books
In Defense of True Stories [why memoirs matter]

@Chicky Net [an all-women’s expat in Thailand site, no longer up]
Jumping the Cue
Living in Chiang Mai interview
When Risks Fail
Top 7 Strange Thai Beauty Products

@Women Learn Thai
A Thai Learning Thai
A Thai Learning Thai part 2
Questions Questions

@8Asians
Chinese Fire Drill
Learning the Thai Language: Pasa Thai

@TravelBuzz
Interview

@InterNations
Interview [for an expats community site]

@Jetsettlers
What Expats Don’t Talk About

@ExpatsBlog
Hawaiian Expat interview [a great interview and a good site for expats]

@Thai Girl Talk
I wrote about 20 blog posts and co-hosted podcast and video blogs at Learn2SpeakThai.

@Akha Ama Coffee
Interview with founder Lee Ayu [I was proud to be a very small part of the team that helped get Lee’s new site off the ground.]

Contact me @ lani@lanivcox.com

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.