by Deborah Quinn | Feb 9, 2014 | Abu Dhabi, UAE
A few months ago, I read about a new app called Uber, which worked a bit like a taxi service, except you order an Uber car online and can track its progress to you on your smartphone. Pretty cool, I thought at the time,but something like that would never come to Abu...
by Deborah Quinn | Nov 14, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, environment, expat, NaBloPoMo, Politics, UAE
It’s hot here in the desert. Even now, in November, when people say “ah…the heat has broken,” we’re still talking 90F at midday. The road I have to take to my house winds through a whole huge construction project designed to make room...
by Deborah Quinn | Jul 1, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, writing
It’s July 1 today, which means that our summer holiday official starts in five days. Yes, America, my children are still in school and will be until July 4, when, with a touch of utterly unintentional irony, their British school officially ends for the year and...
by Deborah Quinn | Jun 15, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, surat al-sabt saturday snapshot, UAE, What's It Like?
I think the world would be a happier place if all small trucks were decorated like the trucks in Abu Dhabi: flowers, butterflies, sometimes hearts. It makes being almost side-swiped a little easier.
by Deborah Quinn | Apr 27, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, expat, family, growing up, Kids, shopping, UAE
Husband and I, we are a rental people. Or we were, until last week. While friends were working on a second house, or a vacation house, or a condo somewhere spiffy, we were renting an apartment in Manhattan (which we moved out of when we left for Abu Dhabi: now we got...
