by Deborah Quinn | Nov 28, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, aging, exercise, growing up, me my own personal self, NaBloPoMo
It started innocently enough. A friend of mine who just had her second child bought herself a fitbit, a little piece of digitized plastic that tracks how many steps you take in a day, the miles you walk, and the calories you burn. Or the lack thereof, depending. R....
by Deborah Quinn | Nov 8, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, aging, exercise, health, NaBloPoMo, pop culture
I have a Very Big Birthday coming up in two months. REALLY BIG. As if to celebrate that fact, my body has started to disintegrate. I have this twingey thing in my knee, and then there’s that little hitch in my hip, and my neck sounds like there are cornflakes...
by Deborah Quinn | Nov 5, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, exercise, Politics, UAE, What's It Like?
What it looks like when repairmen come to your house in Abu Dhabi: Everybody’s shoes get left at the door–whether it’s friends stopping by for a visit or workers coming to see why the dishwasher spews water all over the kitchen floor. And even...
by Deborah Quinn | Jul 22, 2013 | exercise, Kids, NYC, Parenting
I’m borrowing the title of this post from The Blessing of a Skinned Knee, that great book about the importance of letting your kids feel some of the bumps in life instead of coddling and protecting them every inch of the way. Judging from this article about the...
by Deborah Quinn | Apr 8, 2013 | exercise, Kids, me my own personal self, sports, Travel, yoga
I have good balance. I can do standing balance poses in yoga (the mildly twisty ones, not the super-twisty ones); I have mastered the rudiments of stand-up paddle-boarding; I’ve even done some yoga moves on a paddle-board. So I figured that learning to surf...
by Deborah Quinn | Mar 23, 2013 | exercise, family, growing up, Kids, Parenting, sports
Caleb is the little brother, the youngest, the baby. His older brother, who isn’t very tall, nevertheless casts a long, long shadow: Liam almost always gets the top honor, the award, the prize. True, Liam’s competitive spirit would make Napoleon nervous,...
