by Kristina | May 31, 2023 | Uncategorized
I loved talking recently with Dave Campbell, a wonderful Canadian podcast host. You can catch our conversation on YouTube: Living the Next Chapter Podcast episode 183, “When the Character You Are Writing About Reaches Out and Touches You as the...
by Kristina | Apr 24, 2023 | Cold Mirage by Kristina Bak, Kristina Bak Oregon Author, NOWEVER by Kristina Bak, Uncategorized
What happens when you mix authors and librarians in one big room? I found out at the 2023 Oregon Library Association Conference in Bend on April 21st. Like A Murder of Crows, or a Gaggle of Geese, it’s what one attendee called “A Shy of Introverts,”...
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...
