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Monthly Archives: November 2016
I’ve Seen A Thing Or Two
Kage Baker was of the opinion that no one who paid attention could ever get bored on a road trip. It helped that she was a born sight-seer, a natural tourist. It also helped that she was obsessive about details, … Continue reading
Meeting Magic
Kage Baker‘s favorite activity at Dickens Fair was probably people-watching. Especially, she liked watching our singular special effect on the patrons – the magical glow that makes the customers believe in the enormous, complicated, Extreme Christmas card that is Dickens … Continue reading
Half Empty AND Half Full
Kage Baker regulated her emotional life like clockwork – a carefully maintained series of gears and weights and counterweights and cunning escapements. Those aren’t ways of getting away; they are clever little devices that make toothed gears … pause … … Continue reading
Dress Rehearsal – All Day, Every Day
Kage Baker loved Dress Rehearsal weekends at Faires. They were exciting, they were productive – because you were well and truly under the gun, and had to get your portion of the show DONE, come Hell or (sometimes literally) high … Continue reading
November 9, 2016
Kage Baker was attentive to politics. She studied everything on the ballots, she maintained her registration, she knew her representatives, she voted in every election. Nonetheless, she did not consider than politics should be discussed in every environment. Family dinners, … Continue reading
Blog #2 for Today; Building Dickens
Kage Baker was always in charge of the packing for Fairs. She handled all the maps. She was my navigator. I miss her dreadfully when I have to do it for myself; not only because it means another Fair without … Continue reading
BLOG #1 for Today: PSA For November
Kage Baker began voting at age 18 – part of the first crop of 18-year-olds to vote in California – and never missed an election in her life. In 2010, I wrote the following blog entry about the importance of … Continue reading
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A Change of Season
Kage Baker loved the change of the seasons. Despite being a native Californian – and an Angelena, at that – she maintained that we had the same seasons as anywhere else in the country. Their markers were different and their … Continue reading
Stress Encourages Growth
Kage Baker was a firm believer in the advantages of carefully regulated stress. “It’s like bonsai,” she explained to me. “Or the espalier principle. All gardening, in fact. You prune branches to reduce unnecessary strain on the plant. You pinch … Continue reading
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There Must Be More Than One Way (Not) To Write
Kage Baker took her last writing class in high school, at age 17. That was in her last quarter of her senior year, when creative scheduling gave her a whopping 2 classes – World Religion and the aforementioned Creative Writing … Continue reading
Kathleen, Kage and the Company 