Monthly Archives: December 2023

New Year’s Eve 2023

Posted on December 31, 2023 by Kate

Kage Baker truly enjoyed New Year’s, both Eve and Day. It was the definitive pinnacle to the building arc of holidays that began, for Kage, with Halloween. Halloween began at sunset, and ramped through the hours of darkness until midnight … Continue reading →

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Christmas Doesn’t End On Christmas Day

Posted on December 28, 2023 by Kate

Kage Baker was raised as a Roman Catholic (as was I), in the modern, 20th century tradition. In our cases, that meant 12 years of parochial school, church every Sunday, and a paucity of saints’ days in the liturgical calendar. … Continue reading →

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Christmas 2023

Posted on December 25, 2023 by Kate

Kage Baker loved Christmas Day, This was hardly unusual, or even noteworthy; most Christians and most dwellers in the Western world do love and enjoy the central holiday of so many, many cultures. This is not to ignore all the myriad … Continue reading →

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Christmas Eve 2023

Posted on December 24, 2023 by Kate

Kage Baker said the first Christmas Eve she remembered was 1955. For those of you, Dear Readers, who are keeping score – yes, that means she was 3 and 1/2 years old. Her memory went back an amazingly long way; … Continue reading →

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Three Is a Semi-Sacred Number

Posted on December 23, 2023 by Kate

Kage Baker grew up in the 60’s and 70’s. And she read voraciously. In a stroke of remarkable good luck, so did her mother, who developed a fondness for fantasy novels when I loaned her my copies of Gormanghast. The good … Continue reading →

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Two In A Row

Posted on December 22, 2023 by Kate

Kage Baker, if she was aware of my writing efforts last night, must have been wringing her hands and cursing in frustration, Technology was never something she enjoyed dealing with, even when it was working correctly. Last night, it was … Continue reading →

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What We Call “the year” Is Almost Done

Posted on December 21, 2023 by Kate

Well, hi there, all of you out there in the listening darkness. First of all, I wish you all a Happy Winter solstice – which will occur at 10:27 tonight. Then, it will be well and truly winter. I know I … Continue reading →

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