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Kage Baker often observed, as do all who do a Fair for more than one day at a time,  that once one is over the jitters and hysteria of Opening Day, one settles into any given Fair as though one … Continue reading →

Kage Baker always came home happy from the Opening Day of Dickens Christmas Fair – and collapsed. It is exhausting; one is not yet hardened to a day of unrelenting Victoriana and Extreme Christmas. It is wondrous fun, exhilirating and amazing: … Continue reading →

Kage Baker subscribed to that popular view that all roads are connected, somehow, somewhere. However, she didn’t believe that they all ran through the same world at the same time. Some roads ran through several, and you might journey through … Continue reading →

Kage Baker liked quiet Thanksgivings at home. Or said she did. How she decided this I have never figured out, because she never had one in her life. She was the eldest of a huge brood of children – which … Continue reading →

Kage Baker loved tea. Not the drink, so much – she tended to have Coke in her teacup, possibly with a nice jot of rum – what she liked was the practice of tea. The afternoon rituals attendant upon the … Continue reading →

Kage Baker worked Renaissance Fairs as both a performer and a stage manager.This is the (abbreviated) week before we open on the day after Thanksgiving – traditionally known, in just about every theatre on the verge of opening, as Hell … Continue reading →

Kage Baker took it as her responsibility to keep me awake on the road on Sunday nights coming home from Fairs. She told me stories – she played spotter for High Weirdness on the road – she made custom music … Continue reading →

Kage Baker loved the San Francisco Bay. She loved crossing the bridges and looking down over the Golden Gate, the expanse of the Bay and the Pacific beyond it, the white caps and white sails and white birds that stitched … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was a professional passenger. Partly this was because she couldn’t drive. Partly it was because she paid attention to the scenery. In fact, she paid so much attention to the scenery that it was a highly moral decision … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was always in charge of packing for our trips. It was my job to get the bags in the car and us to our destination – but packing was her forte. I would have arrived a lot more … Continue reading →