by Deborah Quinn | Jun 30, 2012 | Abu Dhabi, Education, family, Kids, Parenting
An entire weekend day with nothing to do. Most of the schools have let out for the summer, families have packed up for month-long vacations elsewhere, and the temperature outside is in triple digits. We’re inside sucking down the AC (carbon footprint be...
by Deborah Quinn | Apr 30, 2012 | growing up, Kids, Parenting, teaching
The other day, at the beginning of class, I asked the students to write about a specific passage in the novel we were reading, so the students curled over their desks and the room was silent for a few minutes except for the scratchings of pen on paper. I love that...
by Deborah Quinn | Dec 26, 2011 | Abu Dhabi, Children, Monday Listicle
We’re in New York for the holidays and the past week has been a blur of visiting, appointments, and last-minute shopping. I’m exhausted, in part because I’ve been moving at a New Yorker’s pace for the first time in five months and I’m a...
by Deborah Quinn | Oct 16, 2011 | Abu Dhabi, exercise, expat, grace in small things, UAE, yoga
Am in need of grace this evening. It’s been, as they say, one of those days. Although actually if I am really precise, it’s only been one of those days since 3:45, when my children got off the bus and all hell broke loose. But we’ll ignore that...
by Deborah Quinn | Aug 4, 2011 | Abu Dhabi, Children, family, NYC, Travel
A beautiful London evening: soft breeze, gentle sun coming through impossibly fluffy green trees. Every now and then a black cab trundles by on the wrong side of the street and I swear to god Mary Poppins will be twinkling up the sidewalk at any minute. We’re staying...
