Monthly Archives: September 2010

Kage Baker, like any sensible person, liked to sleep in on Saturdays. She didn’t get to do that much as an adult – despite a vow at the end of high school that she was never going to see a … Continue reading →

Kage Baker liked the idea of county fairs. There is something so marvelously wholesome about the idea, even if one of the best activities is eating your way from one weird fried food to another. But the air of Harvest … Continue reading →

Kage Baker had a number of work-related personal rituals. These were the things she did to facilitate the start of a writing session, or close down her computer at the end of the day. They were things that calmed her, … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was a very firm believer in the idea that sometimes – sometimes, mind you – you just have to shut down and  recharge. Nearly everyone agrees with this on, as it were, paper … Kage meant it. When … Continue reading →

Kage Baker liked this show. I loooove it. And Season 5 just came out today on DVD! So I was at Best Buy when the store opened, and now I have all the disks and a full carafe of coffee … Continue reading →

Kage Baker spent a lot of her Labour Days at Northern Faire. In the earliest days, it was always traditionally the weekend before last – and being a 3-day weekend, it felt like the Faire would never end.  That provoked … Continue reading →

Kage Baker started a lot of stories while on the road. As she was a life-long passenger – she never learned to drive – it was one of the ways she entertained herself on our lengthy journeys to and from … Continue reading →

Kage Baker had a real fear of confronting strangers. Not a handy phobia for an actor or a writer, but then she never intended to become a public figure. All she wanted to do was write and perform. She wanted … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was a great admirer of the surreal. I always suspected it was how she actually saw the world, at least out of one eye. Due to intermittent strabismus, she only ever saw out of one eye at a … Continue reading →