by Deborah Quinn | Feb 14, 2019 | Abu Dhabi, family, Kids, marriage, Travel
It’s Valentine’s Day and a friend just asked for advice about planning a safari, so it seems appropriate to re-post this meditation on love, marriage, shit, and rainbows. You know, just your basic extended metaphor but with hippos. One of the gifts, for...
by Deborah Quinn | May 20, 2017 | Children, expat, Kids, Politics, Travel
The first time I traveled from the US overseas with a four-year old, I packed cans of soup. Yes, soup. That’s what he ate. He was three, wildly underweight for his age, and he was my first kid. I happily paid the baggage surcharge in exchange for knowing that...
by Deborah Quinn | Dec 1, 2015 | Abu Dhabi, expat, Politics, The National, Travel
In October, I had the joyful experience of spending a few days in Vienna and Salzburg with my siblings and my mom. We laughed and drank, listened to music and walked through wonderful old streets exploring Austria’s history–real and imagined. There were...
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 | Aug 24, 2014 | Abu Dhabi, birth, Children, family, Kids, Parenting, Travel
This face of joy is Caleb, at one, at Barnegat Light on Long Beach Island. He’d learned to walk at nine months, which meant that despite having a brain about the size of a walnut and a diaper the size of a basketball, he would climb up stairs, stagger along the...
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...
