Monthly Archives: May 2013

Kage Baker was a perpetual passenger. Usually, mine. She never learned to drive – nor ever wanted to, either. She felt that her chancy vision – which was not always reliably binocular – plus her innate nervousness would constitute a … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was not one to stay up late at Cons. She insisted on as full a night’s sleep as she could get, so as to be sharp for the next day. I have neither her self-discipline, nor her sleep … Continue reading →

Kage Baker loved going to conventions, but they were hard on her. The hours one tends to keep were tough – she was a diurnal person, and not inclined to go out to parties and be loud in any event. … Continue reading →

Kage Baker loved people watching. The Faire was the best place for it, and we spent many a hot afternoon with our feet up, mugs of ale in hand, watching the tide of customers go by. It was always fun … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was a firm believer in the adage that the point of a journey is the journey itself. Often, for her, it was; we’d set off with no goal or destination in mind, just to be travelling. The things … Continue reading →

Kage Baker loved science fiction conventions, She hadn’t thought she would – she went to her first couple in anticipatory terror and distrust, prepared to be made mock of by hundreds of other people’s fans with bad pointy ears and … Continue reading →

Kage Baker, as I have often noted, was heavily in favour of voting.  The exercise of one’s franchise was a dearly bought privilege, as her studies of history taught her: she appreciated that. And we were in the first batch … Continue reading →

Kage Baker regarded writing as a natural art, one she was compelled to follow. Whether or not she had had any talent, whether or not she had ever collected an audience, she would have been a writer. She started writing … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was a firm believer in the use of domestic magic. She said she didn’t care what other people thought. (Which was a modest understatement.) Nor did she care for cute or soulful systems of cantrips and prayers. She … Continue reading →

Kage Baker actually enjoyed the processes of editing and re-writing. She had expected to hate them. (I had expected her head to explode.) But what happened was that she happily accepted direction, correction and changes. In fact, she said she … Continue reading →