by Kristina | Sep 16, 2025 | Kristina Bak author
A LOSS: Nanuq was a cat of peace. For fourteen years he shared my morning writing chair. His loving spirit never faltered, even as he suffered in his final days. A GAIN: Ten months ago I received a new hip, my old one wrecked in a tango accident. Yes, tango can be...
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...
