by Kristina | Aug 4, 2022 | Cold Mirage by Kristina Bak, Kristina Bak author
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...
by Kristina | Mar 24, 2022 | Bookstores in Bend Oregon, Cold Mirage, Cold Mirage by Kristina Bak, Kristina Bak author, NOWEVER by Kristina Bak, Oregon bookstores
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...
by Kristina | Jul 20, 2021 | Bend Oregon, Cold Mirage, Kristina Bak author, Nowever, Uncategorized
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...
by Kristina | May 31, 2020 | Art in Bend Oregon, From Here to Argentina: A Tango Love Story, Tango in Bend Oregon
My last newsletter appeared here in February, that heady time we recognize now as the end of life as we knew it. Soon after I wrote the cheerful note about my 2018 book, From Here to Argentina: A Tango Love Story, I was off to Portland, Oregon for Valentango, the...
by Kristina | Feb 6, 2020 | Argentine Social Tango, From Here to Argentina: A Tango Love Story, Tango, Tango in Bend Oregon, Uncategorized
Love, romance, and tango shine a glittering light through this month that can be so dismal in northern latitudes. For the fourth year in a row, I plan to celebrate Valentine’s Day (and my husband’s birthday) dancing at Portland’s Valentango 2020...
