by Robin Sparks | Dec 8, 2005 | Blog
Make your choice, adventurous stranger: strike the bell and bide the danger or wonder, till it drives you mad, what would have happened if you had” –the quote is from C.S. Lewis, author of “The Chronicles of...
by Robin Sparks | Dec 7, 2005 | Blog
I picked the movie for its title, but it was the story that wedged its way into my heart. A HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD is about how loved ones enter and exit our lives not always on schedule. It re-examines the definition of family, of friends, and lovers. And...
by Robin Sparks | Oct 20, 2005 | Blog
August 22, 2005 Why have I moved from checking the pulse of Asia to revisiting South America? And why Brazil? Brazil is categorized in investing circles as a developing country. Which means it’s a poor country with lousy infrastructure and unfathomable corruption OR...
by Robin Sparks | Oct 10, 2005 | Blog
I have a soul connection with other expats I meet in the world, an unspoken understanding that I don’t have with non-traveling Americans. When I meet another world traveler, it’s as if I have come home, found my tribe. It is not uncommon for me to run into...
by Robin Sparks | Sep 24, 2005 | Blog
September 24, 2005 Back in San Francisco Well y’all, I’m back from Brazil. I guess you’ve noticed I didn’t post anything while I was gone, much to my self-flogging chagrin. I’m resisting the urge to lay out reams of excuses here, so...
by Robin Sparks | Sep 23, 2005 | Blog
Auguest 26, 2005 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil I took my Apple to the new highly touted Mac Spa in San Francisco. When I picked it up the night before leaving for Brazil, my Mac G4 had received a new brain called Tiger. I added lots of new and improved memory, and a mic so...
