Field Notes
The recent, the unfinished, and the occasionally overshare — school systems, sport choices, and everything in between that comes with raising three kids somewhere that’s almost, but not quite, home.
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Ten Years, No Interruptions
We stayed until after closing. It took the better part of ten years to get to a table like that — no kids, no clock, nowhere to be.
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Are We Becoming Singaporean? Our Mandarin Tuition Saga
Three tuition classes, three completely different experiences — from copy-the-board worksheets to “she’s below level,” to finally finding one that made her laugh. A tuition saga, and an honest look at how many small compromises it takes before “we’d never do that” quietly becomes “well, maybe just this once.”
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Almost Local: An Introduction
When my daughter’s football teammate said “you don’t look Singaporean,” it sparked a bigger question: what do you call three Dutch kids born and raised in Singapore, on local contracts, twelve years deep into a life that’s neither expat nor local? Welcome to Almost Local.
