by Deborah Quinn | Aug 14, 2012 | Abu Dhabi, expat, moving, NYC, Parenting, UAE
A year and a day ago, Husband and I knelt in front of the departure counter at JFK, enroute to our new home in Abu Dhabi, and played “rearrange the suitcases” because two of our suitcases were over the weight allotment for international travel. Liam slunk...
by Deborah Quinn | Jul 21, 2012 | NYC, pop culture, tech life, writing
I’ve been to a lot of conferences and have the pile of name-tags somewhere to prove it. The conferences blur together: large industrial-strength hotel, lots of people swirling through elevators and escalators, people talking to other people in small rooms and...
by Deborah Quinn | Jan 24, 2012 | Abu Dhabi, expat, Monday Listicle
Today is the beginning of the new semester, which means it’s time to crank up the teaching machine, dust off the notes, realize that these notes are too dusty to use yet again, re-write the syllabus, and generally panic about what the hell I’m going to say...
by Deborah Quinn | Oct 2, 2011 | Abu Dhabi, expat, Politics, UAE
I’m anxious today. Well, actually, I’m anxious a lot of the time, in a kind of anticipatory free-floating sort of way–I like to have a sort of stockpile of anxiety on hand, ready to whip out at the slightest provocation, but this morning, my anxiety...
by Deborah Quinn | Sep 4, 2011 | Abu Dhabi, Children, Education, growing up, Kids, Parenting
Tomorrow everything starts. Real Life, Abu Dhabi style: the boys have their first day of school, I have my first day of classes. Husband had a bunch of “firsts” this morning: first time slot, first class of the new semester, first-year students, freshly...
