by Kristina | May 31, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
by Kristina | Apr 24, 2023 | Cold Mirage by Kristina Bak, Kristina Bak Oregon Author, NOWEVER by Kristina Bak, Uncategorized
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,”...
by Kristina | Feb 24, 2023 | Bend Oregon, Bookstores in Bend Oregon, Cold Mirage
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...
by Kristina | Dec 19, 2022 | Cold Mirage, Kristina Bak Oregon Author, Nowever
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,...
by Kristina | Nov 3, 2022 | Bend Oregon, Kristina Bak author
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...
