Robin Sparks

An American woman’s global search for a new country

First night, Bali 12/12/08

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...

Writing Workshop Aboard Turkish Gulet 2009

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...

Iraqi Refugees in Turkey

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....

Back Again

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...

At Home in Buenos Aires

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...

The Personal Travel Story

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)