by Kristina | May 31, 2020 | Art in Bend Oregon, From Here to Argentina: A Tango Love Story, Tango in Bend Oregon
My last newsletter appeared here in February, that heady time we recognize now as the end of life as we knew it. Soon after I wrote the cheerful note about my 2018 book, From Here to Argentina: A Tango Love Story, I was off to Portland, Oregon for Valentango, the...
by Kristina | Feb 6, 2020 | Argentine Social Tango, From Here to Argentina: A Tango Love Story, Tango, Tango in Bend Oregon, Uncategorized
Love, romance, and tango shine a glittering light through this month that can be so dismal in northern latitudes. For the fourth year in a row, I plan to celebrate Valentine’s Day (and my husband’s birthday) dancing at Portland’s Valentango 2020...
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 | Sep 25, 2018 | Argentine Social Tango, Bend, From Here to Argentina: A Tango Love Story, Oregon, Oregon bookstores, Tango in Bend Oregon, Uncategorized
My ancestors moved relentlessly west across North America, my father’s parents from Eastern Europe at the beginning of the 20th century, my mother’s predecessors from Scotland in the early 1700s. The only “roots” I experienced were several...
by Kristina | Aug 7, 2018 | Argentine Social Tango, Bend, From Here to Argentina: A Tango Love Story, Oregon, Oregon bookstores, Tango in Bend Oregon, Uncategorized
A reader recently asked, “Where do you write your novels?” One answer is, “Wherever I happen to be.” On these perfect Central Oregon summer days, that’s often outside, in my garden. Right now it’s definitely not at my desk,...
by Kristina | Jun 6, 2018 | From Here to Argentina: A Tango Love Story, Tango, Tango in Bend Oregon
Yes! From Here to Argentina: A Tango Love Story is a perfect beach read, or hammock-in-the-garden read, or airplane getaway read. Reading my novella to the audience at Grassroots Books in Corvallis in May was fun, too, including the tango dancing upstairs...
