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Kage Baker had a deep and abiding love of plumbers. She was a landlady’s daughter, and lived in the Hollywood Hills for the first 40 years of her life. You develop a real appreciation of plumbers in those circumstances; they … Continue reading →

Kage Baker loved the Los Burritos chain of restaurants in Los Angeles. There was one on Hollywood Boulevard, down near Vine; there’s one on San Fernando on the edge of Glendale. They’re an old Los Angeles chain, or were – … Continue reading →

Kage Baker, being a very modest lady as well as a generally private person, tended to keep her illnesses to herself. Whether that was a sinus headache or the undifferentiated carcinosarcoma (Rare. Fast. Deadly.) that killed her, she just preferred … Continue reading →

Kage Baker would  declare from time to time that things had just gotten too hard to deal with, and it was time to run away. Her fondest wish was to one day run away to sea, but in default of … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was an intensely private person. It’s how she managed to conceal, for almost a year, the condition that was finally diagnosed as late stage uterine cancer. It was a foolish choice, that modesty; but Kage did the best … Continue reading →

Kage Baker: for her, the annual holiday season began on October 1st. Which is today. So, happy October 1st, Dear Readers, and welcome to three months of frenzied dancing in the dark! As we slide (astronomically, culturally, spiritually. Grammatically.) into … Continue reading →

Kage Baker liked coffee … no, I tell a lie. What Kage liked was caffeine. To this end, she drank many pints of Coca Cola every day, because she also preferred her beverages sweet and cold. She’d tried warming up … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was wont to occasionally throw her hands in the air, whirl around in her swivelly desk chair and exclaim: “The computer won’t work!” This could mean anything: a power failure. A virus attack. A corrupted file. The sudden … Continue reading →

Kage Baker borrowed, as part of her personal philosophy, a line from William Wordsworth: “The world is too much with us …” She said it was a battle cry, an excuse, a complaint, an explanation and a prayer. Saying it, … Continue reading →

Kage Baker did not deal with repairmen. For all I know, she might have been good at it – but she just didn’t do that, so we never found out. It was just the way she was. She’d retire to … Continue reading →