Robin Sparks

An American woman’s global search for a new country

Gated Communities and Homeless Dinners

Hey there… Where in the world am I now? Home. Really home. With my parents in Northern California. As you may have surmised from last month’s blog, I am with my mother who is undergoing chemotherapy. With the soundtrack of Bonanaza, Walton Mountain reruns,...

Decide to Rise

Every now and then I read a blog that makes me want to rise up, fist in the air, and shout, “Yeah!” Like the one below by Danielle LaPorte. Perhaps this particular blog resonated with me tonight because I am finally making good on my promise to write every...

Where to Live When All the World is Home

I recently read an article online called “Parents of the Third Culture: Where to Retire When All the World is Home”. http://www.expatharem.com/2011/04/27/parents-of-the-third-culture-where-to-retire-when-all-the-world-is-home/ It got me thinking....

Safe

I was blissfully going through emails in my lumbong across the garden from my house in Bali this morning, when I read a friend’s newsletter. That was the first I heard about the recent “random shooting” in Arizona. I love not being fed the news on a...

Wow, What a Workshop it Was

November 1, 2010 I arrived in Bali from Istanbul end of September, just days before our Write and Sell That Book Now! workshop. We had 14 students and the instructor, Joanna Penn, was AMAZING in every sense of the word. Each of us walked away from the workshop...