by Robin Sparks | Feb 21, 2013 | Blog, Uncategorized, Where's Robin now?
Feb. 19, 2013 Nusa Lumbongan, Indonesia I dreamed 5 nights ago that I met the Pope. He was walking down an avenue surrounded by many people. A group of men were with him, bald, wearing vestments. The Pope, kind, soft and warm, approached me and looking me in the eye...
by Robin Sparks | Feb 21, 2013 | Blog, The Best Places In the World, Travel, Uncategorized, Where's Robin now?
I have come alone to an Indonesian island called Nusa Lumbongan for a writing retreat. Why a solo writing retreat when I live on the bucolic island of Bali? Because in Ubud there is just so much life, friends and distraction, that I have to hide away at least once a...
by Robin Sparks | Jan 6, 2013 | Blog, Uncategorized, Where's Robin now?
January 3, 2013 Ubud, Bali, Indonesia My children and my former husband are boarding a plane in Bali at this very moment to return to California. As 2012 dovetails into 2013, I’m here to share with you something that is big for me. A long time dream of mine has come...
by Robin Sparks | Apr 23, 2012 | Blog, Published Articles, Uncategorized
Istanbul, 2008 I am up hours before the sun speeding in a taxi to Ataturk Airport in Istanbul to assist Iraqi refugees who are headed to the country that I have voluntarily left behind. Refugee: One who has crossed an international border and is unwilling or unable to...
by Robin Sparks | Mar 4, 2012 | Blog, The Best Places In the World, Travel, Where's Robin now?
I love gnarly shiny Bangkok with its jarring juxtapositions. Vendors selling anything and everything you didn’t know you needed (vibrator anyone?) for miles and miles along potholed smelly sidewalks, next to towering air conditioned shopping malls, the likes of...
by Robin Sparks | Feb 5, 2012 | Blog
Words can take an us out of our heads and into our bodies…From intellect to full body sensuality From my favorite blogstress, Daniel LaPorte: “I want my day to feel like jazz. I want kissing to feel like eating an orange off the tree from Tuscany. I want...
