About Me

Seeking the magic in the moment

The longer version:

I’m Kamsin, a bag of (apparent) contradictions: a digital homebody, global nomad who loves to stay home, world-traveller who likes nothing better than to be curled up on a comfy chair with a book. I’m embracing midlife and all the wonderful ways it offers women to shed the weight of expectations and mature into who I really am. But at the same time I’m still a lost little girl looking for fairies at the bottom of the garden. I long for adventure but want nothing more than a safe, simple, sanctified life and a place to call home.

I’ve lived in China, Japan, Indonesia (briefly), Bosnia and Herzegovina and now Singapore. Most of my adult life I’ve lived in Japan. England is home home. But what does home even mean anymore? It’s certainly not something singular and long ago stopped being easy to define.

I’m one third of a bilingual family, living a multi-cultural life, trying to figure out what it all means and how to live well. When asked which culture we most identify with as a family I need more than once choice. We’re Japanese and British but we also belong to a less clearly defined expat culture here in Singapore, a third culture that’s fluid and always shifting. We’re also making it up as we go along, trying to figure out what works for us.

Before we moved to Singapore, I taught English as a Foreign Language and hold an MA in Applied Linguistics and TESOL. I learnt to speak Japanese (with intermittent success) as an adult and am currently obsessed with learning everything I can about Asian art, history and culture, especially the religious and spiritual art of the region. In 2024, I became a volunteer museum guide at the Asian Civilisations Museum here in Singapore which has fueled that latest obsession.