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 | 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 | Oct 5, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, Education, Feminism, Gender, me my own personal self, teaching, writing
Next week I am teaching Virginia Woolf’s brilliant and amazing essay A Room of One’s Own. So on my list of “to do” for the weekend is this note, jotted down while I was in a meeting: “find a way in to Room.” Indeed. Of course, what...
by Deborah Quinn | Aug 8, 2013 | Books, me my own personal self, pop culture, Products, reading, writing
If you’re a woman-type person, then I would imagine at some point in your life, you’ve been to the ladies room, aka the female toilet, aka the powder room. (Does anyone still use powder anymore?) And I would imagine that in that powder room, you’ve...
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 | Aug 10, 2012 | Feminism, Gender, growing up, me my own personal self
Over at Chosen Chaos, Jamie has been running a series called “If I Could Turn Back Time,” in which writers are asked what they would tell their eighteen-year-old selves. I posted this piece on her site a while ago, and now she’s doing a wrap-up...
