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 | Feb 15, 2016 | Children, family, growing up, Kids, Parenting, tech life, World Moms Blog
I write for a great blog called WorldMomsBlog, which brings together writers from around the globe to talk about life in their part of the world. Sometimes, as you might imagine, events and issues are culturally specific but more often than not, there are shared...
by Deborah Quinn | Jan 29, 2014 | aging, Feminism, growing up, me my own personal self, ranting
So I’ve been fifty for an entire week and so far things are going pretty well. It didn’t look good there for a while, though, because I inducted myself into my fifth decade not only with a horrible cold but also with a violent stomach bug that had me...
by Deborah Quinn | Jan 18, 2014 | Abu Dhabi, aging, Books, growing up, The National, Travel
You know how when you get an email or a phone message that you probably should return quickly, and then you don’t, and then the longer it goes the harder it feels to return the call? So that what would’ve been a quick little note or a short conversation...
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 25, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, family, growing up, Kids, NaBloPoMo, Parenting, pop culture
For a long time, when my kids were little, I refused to outsource the birthday party: I made a cake, invited the kids over, maybe used the “community space” in our building for games of some kind or another. The year that Liam turned four, when Caleb was...
