by Deborah Quinn | Feb 2, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, surat al-sabt saturday snapshot
Late afternoon fog, earlier this week, made the city a kind of dreamscape.
by Deborah Quinn | Nov 30, 2012 | Abu Dhabi, NaBloPoMo, UAE
We had plans with another family today to go out to Saadiyat Island , which is about fifteen minutes from downtown Abu Dhabi, but feels worlds away: big empty beach, no tall buildings, very few people. I woke up this morning to this: I’ve seen the iPhone iOracle...
by Deborah Quinn | Jan 20, 2012 | Abu Dhabi, environment, me my own personal self
Husband and the boys took me for a little birthday dinner tonight: it was family dinner, which means we went somewhere that serves chicken pressed into shapes no self-respecting chicken would acknowledge. Tomorrow night, friends have offered to babysit the boys so...
by Deborah Quinn | Oct 19, 2011 | Abu Dhabi, environment, UAE, wordless wednesday
At 7AM this morning, this was the view outside my window, on the 37th floor:
by Deborah Quinn | Aug 27, 2011 | Abu Dhabi, environment, NYC, Travel, urban nature
Maybe you’ve heard? A big storm is trundling up the East Coast and is poised to flood the shit out of New York. Apparently this one is The Big One, folks, the storm of the century, the storm that is finally going to wipe out the den of inquity that is New York. ...
