by Deborah Quinn | Nov 10, 2013 | NaBloPoMo, writing
Erica, over at yeahwrite, asked me to write a guest post for Day 10 of this month o’blogging. My post about wrushing into writing (see what I did there?) is up at yeahwrite today, so click over there — and while you’re there, click around on the...
by Deborah Quinn | Oct 5, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, Education, Feminism, Gender, me my own personal self, teaching, writing
Next week I am teaching Virginia Woolf’s brilliant and amazing essay A Room of One’s Own. So on my list of “to do” for the weekend is this note, jotted down while I was in a meeting: “find a way in to Room.” Indeed. Of course, what...
by Deborah Quinn | Sep 21, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, expat, family, growing up, Kids, surat al-sabt saturday snapshot, Travel
Okay, sure, things have been a little slow over here these days. There’s been nothing here but ostriches and while ostriches are always appropriate, sort of like champagne, I can understand that looking at the lady ostriches settling into the dust might be a...
by Deborah Quinn | Aug 16, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, Books, expat, Kids, NYC, Travel, writing
We’ve spent the last six weeks or so in the U.S. visiting friends and family, including a trip to Plymouth Plantation in Massachusetts. My kids go to a British school, so this trip was my attempt to offer them a dollop of U.S. history, which for some reason their...
by Deborah Quinn | Aug 8, 2013 | Books, me my own personal self, pop culture, Products, reading, writing
If you’re a woman-type person, then I would imagine at some point in your life, you’ve been to the ladies room, aka the female toilet, aka the powder room. (Does anyone still use powder anymore?) And I would imagine that in that powder room, you’ve...
