by Deborah Quinn | Jan 17, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, Kids
The other day, I wrote a piece for The National, the English-language newspaper about “home,” or more exactly, the somewhat confused state of being multiply “homed.” When we got back to Abu Dhabi after our time in New York this winter, I had...
by Deborah Quinn | Sep 20, 2012 | Abu Dhabi, expat, food, NYC, Travel, UAE
Tim O’Brien has a fantastic book called The Things They Carried, about the talismanic objects that Viet Nam soldiers carried in their rucksacks. We all carry things with us – things to remind us of the people we love, things to ward off danger, things to...
by Deborah Quinn | May 28, 2012 | Abu Dhabi, expat, family, Monday Listicle
Home. That’s what Stasha is asking us to think about this week and as often happens, the listicle topic and the topic floating around in my own brain right now seem to mesh. I’ve been missing “home” a bit, even as I’m wondering where home...