by Kristina | Jan 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
Among all the disasters and tragedies afflicting our world, the fires in Australia bring me to tears, my cherished memories of places half-a-world away now overlaid with videos of exploding eucalyptus forests, desperate firefighters, and animals with their paws burnt...
by Kristina | Nov 22, 2019 | Bookstores in Bend Oregon, From Here to Argentina: A Tango Love Story, NOWEVER by Kristina Bak, Tango in Bend Oregon
In this time of political madness, nothing is more soothing to me than to take refuge in one of our Central Oregon independent bookstores. We’re rich in this region with Roundabout Books in Bend’s NW Crossing, Dudley’s in downtown Bend, Herringbone...
by Kristina | Oct 14, 2019 | Bookstores in Bend Oregon, NOWEVER by Kristina Bak, Oregon bookstores, Tango
Write what you know is a sensible dictum; write what you want to find out is way more fun. The wild Pacific Coast of Vancouver Island first stirred my imagination when I was an undergrad in Bellingham, near the Canadian border. I finally got there a few...
by Kristina | Aug 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
Fiction writers, story weavers, dream for everyone. A person not allowed to dream gradually goes mad; a world without dreams would be unlivable. We need dreams of beauty and love and kindness, humor, excitement, and mystery––even nightmares––to thrive. As a writer, I...
by Kristina | Jul 23, 2019 | NOWEVER by Kristina Bak
Here, in late July, each day’s air is so clean, the sky so blue, I want to drink it––no big wildfires this season in our Oregon Cascades. (We knock wood when we say it, as though the superstition will save us when lightning storms come flashing through.) Even...
