Robin Sparks

An American woman’s global search for a new country

ALL IN THE FAMILY

Let’s make it a requirement for North American highschool students to study abroad for one year. Education is more than the acquisition of skills – it is exposure to different ways of being and the development of a worldview – a type of learning not...

Ishmael

Five years ago I ended up in San Francisco just 40 miles from where I’d been born. The City By the Bay was to be the nest from which I would take exploratory flights in search of a nifty nest abroad. Oh, but how I dug my talons in, trying with all my might to...

Quote I love

Life is short and we have not too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark way with us. Oh, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind. Henry Frederic Amiel – 1885 (thanks to Rose for this, and welcome back from...

IF YOU WANT A LIFE CHANGE…

The next door neighbor in my new Noe Valley (SF neighborhood) digs, tapes a different quote in his window every morning. Here is today’s and my favorite: IF YOU WANT A LIFE CHANGE… 1. Do it immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions! OK,...