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Kage Baker was a big believer in Fate. She took signs seriously. She could even find them retroactively, noting after an event that some specific oddity or revelation had clearly been a contributing factor. She always said fortune-telling backwards was … Continue reading →

Kage Baker loved the last weekend of Dickens. Partly because it was ending – one gets awfully tired, doing Extreme Christmas – but mostly because she felt it was usually the best one. All the parts have settled in and … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was maybe the most modest person I have ever known. Despite 30-odd years spent in live theatre, she never, ever got used to changing clothes in public. To most of the rest of us raving exhibitionists, any area … Continue reading →

Kage Baker bade me write every day once she was gone, and up until this last Sunday, I have fulfilled that contract. Even on the days when I was ill, tired or just plain lazy, I managed a few lines … Continue reading →

Kage Baker had evolved an infallible way to get through the holidays, feel involved and not go crazy. She had a quite arbitrary but functional event calendar that covered the entire last third of the year. Such and such a … Continue reading →

Kage Baker liked the peculiar rhythms of dates like this. She loved the advent of digital clocks, too – she had always had trouble reading classical analogue faces – and happily watched all ours for the consecutive moments – 12:34. … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was always acutely aware that only one of us could drive. She was also always worried that I insisted on a stick shift, which most of our friends and all our family could not drive. She felt it … Continue reading →

Kage Baker never worried about how long we would be on the road. She didn’t want to still be there in certain conditions – storms, the dark, UFO attack, seismic events, caterpillar migrations (ever been in one?) – but the … Continue reading →

Kage Baker hated arguments. They made her physically ill. Despite our shared (and somewhat eccentric) pan-Celt and Iriquois heritage – and all of those are fractious peoples, let me assure you – Kage did not relish a quarrel. She barely … Continue reading →

Kage Baker always said, she would rather remember people’s birthdays than the days they died. Certainly, it’s more cheerful. And she adamantly stuck to that, as much as she could; even as the years went by and round and down … Continue reading →