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Kage Baker always worried about being benighted on the road home from Fair. Especially if the weather looked bad. We drove a lot of nights down I-5 with lightning flashing continuously to the east across the width of the San … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was my designer for Dickens Fair. The Parlour of the Green Man was formed in her mind. We’ve been working on it for 10 years now- this is the 11th year beginning right now – and in a … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was a big fan of conspiracy theories. She thought they were hilarious, just as a general class of data, and as insight into the way people’s mind connect random dots and create patterns out of junk. However, she … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was a very polite lady. She always said thank you. We were taught very old-fashioned manners when we were small, and among them was that a thank you was always called for. One of the rules of Southern … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was an avid voter. She (and I) were in the first crop of 18+ people to get the vote, and she never missed an election after that. Her armoir had I Voted stickers all over it. A few … Continue reading →

Kage Baker always felt that you could not have too many fresh beginnings. If there was a chance to mark a new line in the earth, turn a corner, flip to a clean page – she took it. She never … Continue reading →

Kage Baker always cooked a feast on Halloween. Pork roast, corn, stuffing – grain, bread, autumn vegetables, and the sacred meat of that fairie-bred creature, the pig. It’s a Welsh thing, the pork. You gotta read the Mabinogion to understand … Continue reading →

Kage Baker never felt a single day was enough in which to do justice to a good holiday. Especially one with a lot of buildup – you can’t anticipate for weeks and weeks, and then discharge all that celebratory energy … Continue reading →

Kage Baker much admired sleight of hand. She knew well that people see what they expect to see. The human mind fills in the gaps in what the eye actually reports, and it fills those gaps with what is most … Continue reading →

Kage Baker, as is well known, loved chocolate. She liked a lot of candy but nothing as much as theobromos. Her fondness was so well known that she got chocolate from strangers in the mail; people came up to her … Continue reading →