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Kage Baker felt that attendance in the “real” world – the world put together by majority societal consensus – was pretty much optional. She was not alone in this outlook; many classical philosophers have felt similarly. Some abjured their followers … Continue reading →

Kage Baker loved the halcyon days. I don’t mean peaceful, warm weather – I mean the classical halcyon days, of Greek legend. Traditionally, these are a fortnight or so of calm seas and warmth around the time of the Winter … Continue reading →

Kage Baker slept. Not a very world-shaking statement, that, unless you are one of those people who do not sleep. But she did. At the end of every day, she sought her bed – carefully put together to give the … Continue reading →

Kage Baker almost always had a cold this time of year. She caught colds like other people … well, do something both easy and unpleasant. Falling off a log. Something like that. One year, she was especially hooked on Bartles … Continue reading →

Kage Baker believed firmly in her dreams. She had good reason – they often came true. Of course, a large part of that was that she forced them to come true. She pursued them, fed them, researched them, and did … Continue reading →

Kage Baker hated weather like this. So do I. Nothing is getting done today … everything I write is dreck, and if I go back over what I’ve done lately I will discover it too has miraculously turned into crap. … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was diagnosed with uterine cancer in May of 2009. Her chemo and radiation therapies started in August of that year. The changes in our life were not great at first, as neither of these therapies is especially onerous … Continue reading →

Kage Baker loved kaleidoscopes. Between her fondness for coloured glass and a love of symmetrical patterns, there was no way she couldn’t. And yet she didn’t own a lot of them. Usually just one, small and cheap and made of … Continue reading →

Kage Baker had the most fabulous and unique skill, as I have previously mentioned, of making things happen. Or maybe it was a magnetic quality of some sort; some capacity as a nexus-generator – her gaze on a subject, her … Continue reading →

Kage Baker always held that the holiday (whatever holiday was currently “It”) wasn’t over until the leftovers were gone. For instance, you might be munching cold spareribs for a couple days after 4th of July, while setting off the last … Continue reading →