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 | 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 | Dec 12, 2011 | Blog, Film Clips, Travel, Uncategorized, Where's Robin now?
Been home less than 24 hours after flying half way around the globe – Turkey to Northern California – in time to get my mother to the doctor for Round #3 chemotherapy treatment. …So grateful for the ability to get around the planet with such speed....
by Robin Sparks | Nov 17, 2011 | Blog, Where's Robin now?
Hey there… Where in the world am I now? Home. Really home. With my parents in Northern California. As you may have surmised from last month’s blog, I am with my mother who is undergoing chemotherapy. With the soundtrack of Bonanaza, Walton Mountain reruns,...
by Robin Sparks | Sep 12, 2010 | Blog, Where's Robin now?
And so here I am in Istanbul, the experiences from this rich summer piling high and fast creating quite the blog jam. The “when to live” vs. “when to stop living in order to write ” conundrum is a long standing one for me. I nearly always opt...
