by Deborah Quinn | Jun 23, 2015 | birth, Children, family, Feminism, Gender, Politics
I wrote this post almost four years ago. In that four-year time, gay marriage has become law in almost half the states in the Union and yesterday Tylenol ran a new ad that celebrated all the different types of families you can imagine — including some that look...
by Deborah Quinn | Aug 24, 2014 | Abu Dhabi, birth, Children, family, Kids, Parenting, Travel
This face of joy is Caleb, at one, at Barnegat Light on Long Beach Island. He’d learned to walk at nine months, which meant that despite having a brain about the size of a walnut and a diaper the size of a basketball, he would climb up stairs, stagger along the...
by Deborah Quinn | Nov 17, 2013 | aging, birth, family, HGH, Kids, NaBloPoMo, Parenting, preemies
On the 18th of November, I officially become the mother of a teenager. Which seems weird because I’m only 25. And it’s doubly weird because in some bizarre harmonic convergence, the 17th of November is officially “World Prematurity Day,” a day...
by Deborah Quinn | Sep 25, 2013 | birth, expat, family, growing up, Kids, Parenting, preemies
It happened like someone had flipped on a switch. At one point there was a boy who wanted to tell me everything and who thought that facebook was stupid and his parents were pretty cool. And then, this summer, Liam became a pre-teen. He’s always been precocious...
by Deborah Quinn | Aug 21, 2012 | birth, Books, Children, family, growing up, Kids, preemies
Buzz Bissinger wrote the book Friday Night Lights, which got made into a movie and then a television show that introduced us to Taylor Kitsch, in the role of Tim Riggins. For that reason alone, we all owe Buzz a debt of gratitude and should buy his latest book, a...
by Deborah Quinn | Apr 30, 2012 | Abu Dhabi, birth, Books, Kids, Parenting
Not for me. That store is closed, closed, closed. But for the amazing Alison, of Mama Wants This. She is having her second child sometime this month and three of my favorite bloggers have put together an online baby shower for Alison, who (in)conveniently for the...
