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...
by Deborah Quinn | Jan 29, 2014 | aging, Feminism, growing up, me my own personal self, ranting
So I’ve been fifty for an entire week and so far things are going pretty well. It didn’t look good there for a while, though, because I inducted myself into my fifth decade not only with a horrible cold but also with a violent stomach bug that had me...
by Deborah Quinn | Aug 9, 2012 | Kids, NYC, pop culture, tech life, writing
Within the span of the last month I have been on safari in Kenya, a water park in Lafayette Indiana, a friend’s house in Easthampton NY, a small rental apartment in New York’s East Village, and BlogHer12 in midtown Manhattan. After careful consideration,...
by Deborah Quinn | Apr 23, 2012 | Abu Dhabi, expat, Feminism, pop culture, shopping, UAE, What's It Like?
So I was at the mall. I’m at the mall because “everything” is at the mall: grocery stores, bookstores (or at least stores that sell book-related products), the Walgreens-equivalent stores. These malls are vast echoey spaces designed to entertain:...
by Deborah Quinn | Nov 23, 2010 | Gender, street notes, Travel
When I told people we were going to Abu Dhabi, the first question my women friends asked was “are you going to have to wear a veil all the time or anything?” The first thing my male friends said was “Wow, how long a flight is that?” Different ways of seeing the...
