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 | 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...
