by Deborah Quinn | Jun 23, 2015 | birth, Children, family, Feminism, Gender, Politics
I wrote this post almost four years ago. In that four-year time, gay marriage has become law in almost half the states in the Union and yesterday Tylenol ran a new ad that celebrated all the different types of families you can imagine — including some that look...
by Deborah Quinn | Jun 11, 2012 | Abu Dhabi, expat, Monday Listicle, Politics, pop culture, UAE
The Sisterhood chose the listicle topic for today: “things that make you go hmmm.” If you don’t know the Sisterhood, you should; they’re exactly the kind of people you’d like to have on vacation with you, in part because they’re so...
by Deborah Quinn | Jan 8, 2011 | Politics
Once upon a time, there was a king who wanted to have more freedom than the church would allow. In fact, a certain clergy man had become quite powerful in his own right and was challenging the king’s authority, but the king could not, outright, do anything. At one...
by Deborah Quinn | Jan 8, 2011 | Politics
The Huffington Post ran an article about Sarah Palin’s PAC putting “targets” on Democrats who voted in favor of health care reform. Here’s the image from Sarah’s web page: Please note the actual targets–gun sights, I think...
by Deborah Quinn | Dec 4, 2010 | reverb10
Today’s reverb#4 prompt: How did you cultivate a sense of wonder in your life this year? I wondered what happened to my waist-line. I wondered what happened to my (aging) skin. I wondered when my children would stop squabbling with each other 45 out of every 60...