by Deborah Quinn | Nov 4, 2018 | Abu Dhab, Children
The first time I did NaBloPoMo was the first time we visited Abu Dhabi, in November 2010. We’d told our kids—who at the time seemed so grown up but now, looking back, seem way too young for us to have hauled them around the world—that we were going “just for vacation”...
by Deborah Quinn | May 20, 2017 | Children, expat, Kids, Politics, Travel
The first time I traveled from the US overseas with a four-year old, I packed cans of soup. Yes, soup. That’s what he ate. He was three, wildly underweight for his age, and he was my first kid. I happily paid the baggage surcharge in exchange for knowing that...
by Deborah Quinn | Apr 28, 2017 | Children, Education, Feminism, Gender, Politics, tech life
Vanity Fair magazine recently ran a profile of Elon Musk that focused on the ways that Musk is at odds with other tech gurus about the relative merits of artificial intelligence (AI). Musk, who thinks that A.I. is humanity’s biggest threat, is quoted as saying...
by Deborah Quinn | Aug 6, 2016 | Abu Dhabi, Children, expat, family, Politics
In July 2004, when I was about five thousand weeks pregnant, I told my midwife that I was about to fly to Northern Michigan for summer vacation. She looked at me and shook her head at my delusional self. Slowly, as if to a not-too-bright-child, she explained that...
by Deborah Quinn | Jul 6, 2016 | Abu Dhabi, Children, Education, growing up, Kids, World Moms Blog
“Global citizen” is a phrase I’m hearing a lot lately. That’s what we’re all supposed to be aiming towards–at least, those of us who didn’t vote for “Brexit” or aren’t in favor of the Trumpian wall. ...
by Deborah Quinn | Jun 17, 2016 | Abu Dhabi, Children, family, tech life, The National
Let me say first that I have a bit of an internet obsession. I stay way too connected to faraway friends on Facebook and I am a too frequent visitor to Tom and Lorenzo. My books float through the ether from Amazon and land in my kindle, like Mike Teevee in Charlie and...
