by Deborah Quinn | Feb 14, 2019 | Abu Dhabi, family, Kids, marriage, Travel
It’s Valentine’s Day and a friend just asked for advice about planning a safari, so it seems appropriate to re-post this meditation on love, marriage, shit, and rainbows. You know, just your basic extended metaphor but with hippos. One of the gifts, for...
by Deborah Quinn | Sep 7, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, environment, surat al-sabt saturday snapshot, Travel
The original fan dancers: Two lady ostriches, fluffing their feathers… And then settling down for a chat:
by Deborah Quinn | Aug 29, 2013 | family, growing up, Kids, Parenting, Travel
We went on safari last week. And now I have to pause for a minute because I still can’t believe that I am someone who can say “I went on safari last week.” There among the wildebeests, the giraffes, and baboons, Caleb turned nine. NINE. The baby is nine. His last year...
by Deborah Quinn | Aug 31, 2012 | expat, family, Kids, Travel
I have a piece in the Travel and Leisure online magazine this week, explaining that “family travel” and “family safari” doesn’t mean that you’re going to end up feeding your kids to the animals. Click here to read the piece, and...
by Deborah Quinn | Aug 23, 2012 | Abu Dhabi, Children, Education, family, food, Travel
On our safari drives through Amboseli and the Masai Mara, it seemed as if we were in a beautifully tended wild-life park. In the Mara, fields of tall grass ripple into the hills and umbrella-shaped acacia trees dot the horizon, and in Amboseli, on a clear day, the...
