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...
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...
