by Deborah Quinn | Aug 24, 2014 | Abu Dhabi, birth, Children, family, Kids, Parenting, Travel
This face of joy is Caleb, at one, at Barnegat Light on Long Beach Island. He’d learned to walk at nine months, which meant that despite having a brain about the size of a walnut and a diaper the size of a basketball, he would climb up stairs, stagger along the...
by Deborah Quinn | Apr 4, 2012 | wordless wednesday
by Deborah Quinn | Apr 1, 2012 | Abu Dhabi, expat, Travel
Our vacation in the Maldives a few weeks ago was perfect, and that’s all I’m going to say about that. It seemed as if we were in a natural paradise…but “natural,” these days, isn’t always what it seems: There were no mosquitoes: The...
by Deborah Quinn | Mar 29, 2012 | Abu Dhabi, expat, family, Kids, Travel
So we took a family trip to the Maldives. Yes, the Maldives. The islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean that are sinking due to global warming and where, just before our trip, they had an itsy-bitsy coup and ousted the president. The coup was fairly pleasant, as...
by Deborah Quinn | Feb 7, 2012 | Abu Dhabi, expat, Travel
When Husband and I were first daydreaming about our move to Abu Dhabi, the idea of being able to explore this part of the world enticed me. I figured from our perch on the Arab Peninsula, we’d be able to explore places with our kids that we would never get to...
