by Deborah Quinn | Oct 30, 2013 | religion, Travel
These ladies had just left Saturday morning mass, in Naples. The church where they worship, Pio Monte della Misericordia, dates to about 1678. We were asked to leave the church while Mass was said–for about ten people. Why were we in this little church on a...
by Deborah Quinn | Oct 29, 2013 | expat, family, Kids, Travel, writing
Memory works in peculiar ways, doesn’t it? I mean, I know that when we were traveling in Italy a few weeks ago, I was tempted to leave my bickering children at the top of Vesuvius as an offering for the gods but now, weeks later, what remains in my mind is a...
by Deborah Quinn | Aug 1, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, Education, family, Kids, marriage, Parenting, religion
image source Old Longtime friends of my husband’s got remarried this past weekend. For those of you in blogland, yes, I know, can you imagine? They got married on Blogher weekend, thus forcing me to choose between…well, between blogging and my family. My...
by Deborah Quinn | Mar 11, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, Education, family, Kids, religion, UAE
Caleb and I are in the back of a cab headed to a soccer tournament, early Saturday morning. “Mommy? Have I ever been in a church?” he asks, apropos of precisely nothing. I think to myself that surely he must have been in a church, at some point in his...
