Kristina’s Blog
Kristina’s Blog
The Magic Realm of Emptiness
On an August afternoon in 2022, I visited the spacious Luminare Press http://Luminarepress.com offices in Eugene. After two years of pandemic remoteness, I was delighted to see again in real life the friendly professional team that made publication a pleasure. I'd...
Fun Podcast Interview on YouTube
I loved talking recently with Dave Campbell, a wonderful Canadian podcast host. You can catch our conversation on YouTube: Living the Next Chapter Podcast episode 183, "When the Character You Are Writing About Reaches Out and Touches You as the Author."
I Love Libraries
What happens when you mix authors and librarians in one big room? I found out at the 2023 Oregon Library Association Conference in Bend on April 21st. Like A Murder of Crows, or a Gaggle of Geese, it's what one attendee called "A Shy of Introverts," but you wouldn't...
Winter’s End Collaboration
Collaboration was my theme at Roundabout Books in Bend for my first in-person event since the pandemic. (How do you use a mic again? Will I remember what I want to say without notes? Look at all those beautiful real people in the room!) A low-key launch for my second...
Winter 1955
On frozen Ahtanum Creek caked snow melts from my pant cuffs around my ankles and down into my boots. Shep stations himself where the ice thins. "Far enough." I understand him as clearly as if he spoke in words. I trust him, my best friend, playmate, protector. I'm...
Today the Sky Is Working
On a late October hike I was thrilled to see the first snow of the season in our Oregon Cascades. I breathed in the clean, cold air perfumed with manzanita. As a friend commented, "The sky is working." This year, when we expected autumn, instead we did our best to...
Kristina and the Ocean at Yachats
Cold Mirage published, my new website live, beach break at Yachats on the Oregon Coast At dawn the ocean is a roar hidden in fog. Last night the incoming tide boomed and crashed, dark waves against black basalt boulders beneath our window. Our host's tsunami...
Spring 2022
Being alive feels like a triumph, living at peace feels like a luxury, neither to be taken for granted. Last summer I celebrated the imminent "Post-Pandemic Emergence" that seemed so certain and turned out not to be. This eight months later, my husband and I joined...
Where Am I? Where Are We Going?
This pandemic hiatus is like waking from a particularly nasty nightmare into (always slippery) reality. As with other functional introverts, for me emergence is a perplexing adjustment. Has it been the way you thought it would be, or are you as confused as I am about...
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Artist and Author of From Here to Argentina: A Tango Love Story, Nowever and Cold Mirage.