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...
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Feb 13, 2019 | Bookstores in Bend Oregon, NOWEVER by Kristina Bak, Oregon bookstores, Uncategorized
NOWEVER, my new YA novel is out! You can find it on Amazon and B&N sites, among others, and if your heart, like mine, is with independent bookstores, on Powells.com. If you’ve been to Portland’s iconic Powell’s City of Books you’ve...
