Deborah Lindsay Williams
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Marriages and Safaris: Beauty. Dung. Sometimes Rainbows.

by Deborah Quinn | Feb 14, 2019 | Abu Dhabi, family, Kids, marriage, Travel

It’s Valentine’s Day and a friend just asked for advice about planning a safari, so it seems appropriate to re-post this meditation on love, marriage, shit, and rainbows. You know, just your basic extended metaphor but with hippos. One of the gifts, for...

At Home (or not) In the World

by Deborah Quinn | Aug 6, 2016 | Abu Dhabi, Children, expat, family, Politics

In July 2004, when I was about five thousand weeks pregnant, I told my midwife that I was about to fly to Northern Michigan for summer vacation. She looked at me and shook her head at my delusional self. Slowly, as if to a not-too-bright-child, she explained that...

Waiting for a train in Austria…without the Von Trapps

by Deborah Quinn | Dec 1, 2015 | Abu Dhabi, expat, Politics, The National, Travel

In October, I had the joyful experience of spending a few days in Vienna and Salzburg with my siblings and my mom. We laughed and drank, listened to music and walked through wonderful old streets exploring Austria’s history–real and imagined. There were...

Traveling While Female…

by Deborah Quinn | Mar 27, 2015 | Abu Dhabi, expat, Feminism, Gender, NYC, Politics, The National, Travel, UAE

Hi there blogosphere…. I seem to have taken an inadvertent hiatus from blogging for a while … it’s the kind of thing like forgetting to write your grandmother: the longer you wait, the more it becomes A THING and the more it becomes A THING the...

in which I am humiliated by a fiberglass plank

by Deborah Quinn | Apr 8, 2013 | exercise, Kids, me my own personal self, sports, Travel, yoga

I have good balance. I can do standing balance poses in yoga (the mildly twisty ones, not the super-twisty ones); I have mastered the rudiments of stand-up paddle-boarding; I’ve even done some yoga moves on a paddle-board. So I figured that learning to surf...
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