by Deborah Quinn | Jul 4, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, expat, Kids, UAE
I live in what we might call a nanny state. In many instances there are limits on internet access, there are very strict rules governing alcohol consumption because it’s a Muslim country, there are signs outside the mall entrances that list the codes of...
by Deborah Quinn | Jul 2, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, expat, NYC, Travel, Uncategorized, writing
To pitch implies that someone will catch, don’t you think? So to pitch, from the very get-go, is itself a hopeful act. And yet of course–as thousands of Hollywood wannabes could tell you–the hope of “pitch” almost always ends in despair,...
by Deborah Quinn | Jul 1, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, writing
It’s July 1 today, which means that our summer holiday official starts in five days. Yes, America, my children are still in school and will be until July 4, when, with a touch of utterly unintentional irony, their British school officially ends for the year and...