by Deborah Quinn | Nov 1, 2011 | Abu Dhabi, Children, expat, family, fun...what a concept, Travel
We leave for India Wednesday night. Our flight leaves Abu Dhabi at 10:30, a good two hours after the boys’ bedtime, which should make for some lovely pre-flight bickering. We arrive in Delhi, conveniently, at 3:15AM. I think that even my children may be too tired to...
by Deborah Quinn | Nov 26, 2010 | environment, fun...what a concept, Travel
Husband and I decided on a splurge during our visit to Abu Dhabi – a splurge underwritten by some research monies he has for an article he’s working on (seriously! About Arabian Sands, a book written by an Englishman who wanted to map the part of the Arabian Desert...
by Deborah Quinn | Feb 5, 2010 | fun...what a concept, NYC
Okay, my birthday was last month, it’s true. But for the last few months, I’ve been going in and out of the Village Tannery eyeing (and yes, occasionally fondling) their leather bags because the satchel I use on my teaching days (my “grownup”...
by Deborah Quinn | Feb 3, 2010 | fun...what a concept, NYC
They announced the Oscar nominees yesterday and on that list of ten (10!) best picture nominees I’d seen exactly…one. The animated one with all the balloons. (Shockingly, the two other movies I’ve seen recently, “Cloudy with a Chance of...
by Deborah Quinn | Nov 30, 2009 | fun...what a concept
“It’s a badguy warship coming in…shphfffththththpphfff POW but WAIT here comes the rescuers with the light saber and now the camel will ride across the planet and argh… ” And thus do Caleb’s battles commence, every evening after...
by Deborah Quinn | Nov 16, 2009 | fun...what a concept
The god Dionysus, as most of us know, is the god of wine. In mythology, he is also the inspirer of ritual madness, ecstasy, and theater, as well as the god of the epiphany. He is sometimes known as “the Liberator” because he frees us from our normal...
