Easing back into island life with aloha and lei making20230827080041

Easing back into island life with aloha and lei making

This summer has been a blur of planning, packing, and moving as we relocated to Hawaii from South Korea. After more than a decade abroad, it was time ...
Friendships and the Expat Life in The Korea Times20230227210629

Friendships and the Expat Life in The Korea Times

Alison LihalakhaFebruary 27, 2023, , , , 0 comments
Hi readers, it’s so great to have you here. February was a good-busy kind of month for me. I worked on my children’s book projects and met...
Cinnamon Spaghetti20221129094933

Cinnamon Spaghetti

I wrote a guest post for the Vietnamese Boat People Blog! Thanksgiving is here, and every year on this holiday, I think back to my childhood when I sa...
10 Things I’ve Learned Living in South Korea20210912114500

10 Things I’ve Learned Living in South Korea

Alison LihalakhaSeptember 12, 2021, , , 0 comments
1. Public restrooms offer soap on a stick. There are restrooms where you’ll find soap in a dispenser or no soap at all, but blue and on a stick ...
Songdo Stories20210623100000

Songdo Stories

Alison LihalakhaJune 23, 2021, , , 0 comments
I have lived in Songdo, a small city in South Korea, since late 2019. It’s a compact and high-tech city with green ambitions that was built on r...
Welcome to my blog20210501060003

Welcome to my blog

Alison LihalakhaMay 1, 2021, 0 comments
I have started this blog to share my thoughts, stories, and tidbits about life, being Asian and an expat. In between will also be updates on my writin...