by Deborah Quinn | Nov 22, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, environment, expat, NaBloPoMo, NYC, religion, The National, Travel, UAE
I live in the suburbs now. From the maelstrom of Union Square in Manhattan to the slightly more sedate “urban” experience of highrise in downtown Abu Dhabi was one shift. But in a weird way the shift from one cityscape to another wasn’t as big a...
by Deborah Quinn | Jul 11, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, environment, expat, Travel
I have a new coffee table. Big and square, it’s exactly the right height to rest my feet on while I sit on the couch. I have a new dining table, too, and in the kitchen cabinet there’s a new mixer—one of those fancy standing mixers with an attachment for mixing bread...
by Deborah Quinn | Jun 14, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, family, Kids, Parenting
Foosball. The only people I knew who had a foosball table were Chandler and Joey on “Friends.” Oh, okay, I didn’t really know them know them. But they did have a foosball table. And now I have a foosball table too. About two months ago, before we...
by Deborah Quinn | Jun 10, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, expat, family, Kids, UAE
We’re moving at the end of the month to what in Abu Dhabi gets called a “villa,” but by villa I don’t mean a small 18th century castle perched on the edge of a Tuscan hilltop. Instead it’s a townhouse, the second in a row of four, on a...
by Deborah Quinn | Jun 5, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, expat, family, growing up, shopping, UAE
We’re moving out of the furnished apartment we’ve lived in for the past two years to an unfurnished, brand-new house in a brand-new housing “compound.” Abu Dhabi and Dubai are dotted with compounds, which are the equivalent of planned housing...
