by Deborah Quinn | Oct 11, 2012 | Books, Children, Education, Kids
Ah, read-aloud time. Those lovely minutes when you bond with your children while reading to them from a favorite story-book. Maybe, before you had kids, you had visions of this time dancing in your head like so many sugarplums: your delectable toddler in fuzzy...
by Deborah Quinn | Feb 12, 2012 | Abu Dhabi, writing
Confession: In elementary school (and middle school, and okay, high school too) I was always last chosen for games in PE. Maybe it was the glasses & braces combo (plus the stringy center-parted hair), or maybe it was the utter lack of hand-eye coordination, but I...
by Deborah Quinn | Jan 17, 2012 | Children, expat, family, Feminism, food, Gender, Kids, Monday Listicle, Parenting, sports
Somewhere in the U.S., it’s still Monday even though here I’ve just put the kids on the bus to Neckerchief Academy for their Tuesday. For yesterday’s listicle–which I’m going to pretend is today’s prompt–Greta gave us a prompt...
by Deborah Quinn | Sep 20, 2011 | Abu Dhabi, Children, family, Monday Listicle
A few days ago I wrote about my confusion about the days of the week. In Abu Dhabi, Sunday is the start of the work week, which means that Monday feels like Tuesday and today, Tuesday, I’m pretty sure it’s Wednesday. On Sunday, I remembered about...
by Deborah Quinn | Jan 19, 2011 | me my own personal self, yoga
The yoga teacher says we’re going to do handstands and that “if a handstand isn’t part of your practice, you can use the wall for your handstand.” I’m thinking to myself, looky here, LuluLemonista, not only is a handstand not in my...
