Navigating Thailand’s Water-based Culture If you’ve ever overheard a conversation in Thai, you may have heard the word nam sprawled throughout. You may have heard mae nam, which translates to “mother water” and means “river.” In another, you may have...
Build a Thai Spa Ritual with Traditional Self-Care Routines If the COVID-19 crisis is stressing you out, you are not alone. While U.S. citizens are experiencing their highest levels of stress since the first outbreak, a mental health evaluation...
Traditional Thai Ways to Beat the Heat With temperatures in Thailand soaring above 40°C (104°F), most of us turn to technology in the forms of the air conditioner and its humble cousin, the ceiling fan. However, rewind the clock 150 years, and our ancestors didn’t...
Reducing Thailand’s Plastic Footprint with Traditional Wisdom Plastic is everywhere. It’s on our beaches, in our rivers, and in our oceans, choking sea life. According to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), plastic pollution is responsible for the death of...
Learning Thai as a Foreigner, Teacher, Mother Many English-speaking foreigners who move to Thailand ruthlessly toil to learn the Thai language. The five tones, the writing structure—it can seem impossible to absorb. Dozens of blog entries profess to hold the...
A Gardener’s Guide to Wild Greens in Thailand Have you ever seen locals in Thailand strolling down an alleyway or along a canal, searching for something in the bushes? They might be looking for pak phuen baan, or edible native plants, to bring home to prepare a meal....
Lessons in Nature Stewardship from Thailand’s Ethnic Groups Ethnic groups are considered some of the best stewards of nature, and there is much we can learn from them about ways to live harmoniously with nature and each other. Together with local communities, ethnic...
The New Frontier of Teaching in Thailand The opportunity to teach is the opportunity to inspire, to awaken students to their true potential, and to shape the future from its very foundation. These opportunities are abundant in Thailand, from the world-class private...
How Auspicious Trees Can Revitalize Thai Cities In many cities across Thailand, it is common to see majestic trees hundreds of years old with colored ribbons tied around them, a remnant of the animist beliefs that pervade Thailand. But increasingly, these ancient...
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