by Deborah Quinn | Apr 5, 2013 | environment, Kids, Travel, Uncategorized
Our second morning of whale-watching started as smoothly as whale-watch number one: we puttered out of the harbor around 7AM on beautiful morning, waving at the fishing boats cutting gracefully through gentle swells on their return from a pre-dawn expedition. The crew...
by Deborah Quinn | Mar 26, 2013 | Feminism, Gender, growing up, Kids, Parenting, Politics, Products, ranting, sex, shopping, Uncategorized
I will not be the only blogger who writes about this latest “ooh aren’t we edgy” marketing campaign; there are bloggers with far bigger platforms than mine who will draw attention to the latest entry in the “How Low Will Corporations Go”...
by Deborah Quinn | Nov 27, 2012 | environment, expat, NaBloPoMo, Politics, UAE, Uncategorized, urban nature
Abu Dhabi, the city, is a bit like Manhattan, in that technically it’s an island, but it’s easy to forget that fact when you’re wandering in the maze of skyscrapers and multi-lane roads. Where Manhattan has New York Harbor, Abu Dhabi has the Arabian...
by Deborah Quinn | Oct 28, 2012 | expat, family, Kids, lost in translation, Travel, Uncategorized
It all would’ve been fine if Caleb and Liam hadn’t quarreled about who woke up whom at what time. There we were at breakfast at the wonderfully named Moevenpick Hotel (say it out loud: move-n-pick, like pick-n-roll but without the ball), just outside the gates to...
by Deborah Quinn | Dec 10, 2011 | Abu Dhabi, Blog, Children, expat, UAE, Uncategorized, What's It Like?
A little while back, on a Friday morning, Caleb and I walked out of the front of our building on our way to his first-ever Abu Dhabi playdate. We were running late, but I needed to stop and get cash from the ATM machine built into the front of our building. Standing...
by Deborah Quinn | Aug 21, 2011 | Abu Dhabi, Blog, expat, NYC, UAE, Uncategorized
What’s your address? Everyone asked us that question before we moved to Abu Dhabi, as if they were really going to write actual letters that needed to be delivered to actual addresses. As if. But even if people were going to write letters to us, or send us packages of...
