by Robin Sparks | Dec 23, 2008 | Blog
My first night in Bali I struggle to stay awake at 8:12. Like a princess in some kind of eden, I sit perched on my large teak four poster bed, high above the turquoise pool below, the uplit banyon tree, the night sounds of the jungle. (I am the guest of Ketut, owner...
by Robin Sparks | Dec 1, 2008 | Blog, Travel, Workshops
Hi Everyone, Yep, we’re doing it again! We had such a successful voyage last September that we’re heading back to Turkey’s Turquoise Coast for not one workshop but two, September 12-19 and September 19-26, 2009 for a week of sailing, writing, and wandering the ruins...
by Robin Sparks | Nov 27, 2008 | Blog
http://thanksgivingstory.weebly.com/index.html Refugees by Robin Sparks I am up before the sun speeding in a taxi to the Istanbul airport to work with Iraqi refugees who are headed to, of all places, the United States, the country that I have voluntarily left behind....
by Robin Sparks | Aug 3, 2007 | Blog
Well, here I am again at long last. It’s as if I deserted my soul when I left this blog untended….You’ve even stopped writing to ask why no recent updates. I’ve lived in Argentina and Turkey these past 18 months. My website update time was...
by Robin Sparks | Mar 26, 2006 | Blog, Workshops
January 26, 2006 was the departure date on my airplane ticket from San Francisco to Bangkok. From Bangkok, I’d go to India, and from there to Bali. India has beckoned me for years, especially Kerala. With more and more jobs being exported to India every day and...
by Robin Sparks | Feb 21, 2006 | Blog, Workshops
Hello from Robin in Argentina. Please click the link below to join Larry Habegger and me in Turkey this June as we learn to write ‘The Personal Travel Story.’ See you in June! PDF: The Personal Travel Story (Turkey, June 3-10, 2006)