Monthly Archives: January 2017

Episodes of Beauty

Posted on January 13, 2017 by Kate

Kage Baker was big on the idea of the Circle of Life. Partly this was because she was a rabid, if episodic, Disney fan. She was raised on Snow White, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty. Fantasia  was probably her favourite movie … Continue reading →

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Shouting Above The Static

Posted on January 12, 2017 by Kate

Kage Baker fought, as all of us do, the vagaries and personality quirks of her electronic media. She was pretty firmly convinced that her home network in specific, and the aether in general, possessed growing intelligences, and she wasn’t sanguine … Continue reading →

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Why Write?

Posted on January 11, 2017 by Kate

Kage Baker wrote  for so many different reasons. But she often wondered why. It drove her crazy, and ate all her time and energy. Sometimes she would spin round and round in her desk chair, exclaiming that she should have … Continue reading →

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Holding Fast In The Storm

Posted on January 10, 2017 by Kate

Kage Baker loved all her techno-tools. Machines fascinated her, especially ones she didn’t really understand. She enjoyed that combination of high-tech and mysticism. Not that she trusted them, mind you. Kage didn’t trust much of anyone, really, and her computer … Continue reading →

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Inquiring Minds II

Posted on January 9, 2017 by Kate

Kage Baker liked questions. She loved puzzles, and questions were the doorway to her favourite puzzles: what’s it all for? Why is it here? What is Here? What happened? And what happens next? She loved simply asking questions. A good … Continue reading →

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Menus, Pantries, Grocery Lists

Posted on January 8, 2017 by Kate

Kage Baker, for all her peripatetic weekend urges, was a great fan of cocooning. Spending a weekend, especially a Sunday, cozily cloistered indoors against the seasonal gales was something she actively enjoyed. It was a sunny, warm day in Los … Continue reading →

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Hobby Horses

Posted on January 7, 2017 by Kate

Kage Baker  had any number of pet topics, peeves, interests and hobbies – like everyone, really; although maybe some of hers were a little unusual. But, also like everyone, she cherished these topics and would happily embark on lectures to … Continue reading →

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Bleah

Posted on January 5, 2017 by Kate

Kage Baker – there, my ritual salutation is in place. My ex-agent, Linn Prentis, died Christmas Eve. I just found out today. I am sad and sorry, though we did not part on the best of terms: maybe, sadder and … Continue reading →

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The Peculiar Satisfactions of Careful Research

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Kate

Kage Baker was, at heart, a researcher. She liked to track ideas through the multiverse of available thought. That meant all forms of media, all sorts of communication, all kinds of art. She liked to start with a single concept … Continue reading →

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Domestic Bliss

Posted on January 3, 2017 by Kate

 Kage Baker was not especially fond of animals, in general. She liked animals the way she liked people – as individuals, one on one, for their specific unique personalities. And very few of them. To Kage, most animals were a … Continue reading →

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