Monthly Archives: July 2011

Kage Baker loved the Coloured Fairy Tale books. We all did. Those venerable collections by Andrew Lang were one of the great delights of childhood; we all went through all of them with great absorption and pleasure. They remained favourites, … Continue reading →

Kage Baker wanted a Kindle during her last year. But she hated being an unpaid beta tester, so she watched and queried our several friends who essayed the leap in to ebooks. collecting data and making up her mind. That … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was a naturally abstemious person. She rarely over-indulged, at least in physical pleasures; she had a disciplined and measured approach to most appetites, deliberately setting aside treats to be enjoyed later at a carefully pre-calculated pace. I’m not … Continue reading →

Kage Baker loved tropical weather. She loved it especially when it began to threaten storms – heat, and a touch of humidity; thunderheads evolving above the mountains like djinni just released from their bottles. A hint of weird green glass … Continue reading →

Kage Baker regarded California as The Edge of the West. The reason is fairly obvious; head far enough west in California (at one point in our lives, maybe two blocks …) and you completely run out of continent. End of … Continue reading →

Kage Baker loved the fourth of July. She was fiercely patriotic. She was the daughter, niece, cousin and aunt of soldiers. She never missed an election, determinedly exercising her franchise no matter what weather, car problems or grief the world … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was a queen of searches. She was patient, implacable and ingenious – when something caught her attention, she would track it down to the uttermost limits of the Internet. However, she was also incredibly busy and slightly distractable. … Continue reading →

Kage Baker had a life-long obsession with an architectural oddity that she called The Sentinel. It was visible from the backyard, a bit of weirdness on a nearby hillside – the degree of visibility depended on how high the mustard … Continue reading →

Kage Baker always made an enormous deal of birthdays – she stretched them out over several days, if she could manage it. Not just her own; other peoples’, too. Like mine. Which is today. My younger sister Kimberly is of … Continue reading →