by Deborah Quinn | Mar 27, 2015 | Abu Dhabi, expat, Feminism, Gender, NYC, Politics, The National, Travel, UAE
Hi there blogosphere…. I seem to have taken an inadvertent hiatus from blogging for a while … it’s the kind of thing like forgetting to write your grandmother: the longer you wait, the more it becomes A THING and the more it becomes A THING the...
by Deborah Quinn | Dec 11, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, health, NYC, Politics, The National, UAE
The other day The National ran an article about various health-care reforms being suggested by the UAE government. Among those reforms are—wait for it—a proposed restriction on portion sizes for fizzy drinks. Yes. That’s right: Mayor...
by Deborah Quinn | Nov 22, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, environment, expat, NaBloPoMo, NYC, religion, The National, Travel, UAE
I live in the suburbs now. From the maelstrom of Union Square in Manhattan to the slightly more sedate “urban” experience of highrise in downtown Abu Dhabi was one shift. But in a weird way the shift from one cityscape to another wasn’t as big a...
by Deborah Quinn | Aug 26, 2013 | Education, NaBloPoMo, NYC, Politics
One story: this semester, I teach two sections of the same class. One class meets at 930AM and has sixteen students, all of whom are native English speakers. The students are lively (probably stoked on the morning coffee); they seem to keep up with the reading. The...
by Deborah Quinn | Aug 21, 2013 | Children, growing up, Kids, NYC, Parenting
This post, which I’m re-posting while I travel this week, reminds me that even though my kids still resemble the Bicker McBickersons, things have gotten better since the time I wrote this post. And of course now that I’ve said that, I’m sure...
by Deborah Quinn | Aug 19, 2013 | Feminism, NYC, Politics, shopping
Did you see this ad on the back of the Times Sunday Style section today? The ad heralds the opening of the new Juicy Couture flagship store on 5th Avenue, which was apparently slated to open in July, when this ad campaign might have made more sense. Perhaps the...
