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 | 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 | 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...
by Kristina | May 9, 2019 | NOWEVER by Kristina Bak, Uncategorized
Virtual reality, algorithms, blockchain, metadata, going wide, artificial intelligence and machine learning––doesn’t sound like the lineup for an authors’ conference, does it? Maybe not ten years ago, or even five, but if you stand still, WHOOSH,...
by Kristina | Mar 23, 2019 | Bend, Bookstores in Bend Oregon, NOWEVER by Kristina Bak
March 16, 2019, what a fun day at Roundabout Books in Bend, Oregon’s NW Crossing, and an honor to share it with six other authors passionate about their work! That’s me in the middle beside Cassie, who performs miracles every day creating wonderful...