by Deborah Quinn | Oct 29, 2013 | expat, family, Kids, Travel, writing
Memory works in peculiar ways, doesn’t it? I mean, I know that when we were traveling in Italy a few weeks ago, I was tempted to leave my bickering children at the top of Vesuvius as an offering for the gods but now, weeks later, what remains in my mind is a...
by Deborah Quinn | Oct 19, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, expat, family, Kids, Parenting, Travel
Way back in the dim mists of time (which is to say, 1985), my family took a trip to France. I’d been studying in London and my mother, an eternal Francophile, had planned a two-week family driving tour through France at the end of my semester. A two-week trip that...