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And Now, (Not) The News

Kage Baker hated the news. By which, she meant the institutionalized, formulaic, on-every-day-at-6PM news that came between afternoon cartoons and prime time television. Also, the current events in the daily newspaper – or twice dailies, when we were kids and … Continue reading

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My Mental Plumbing Has Backed Up

Kage Baker liked the installation of new things to be swift. Simple. Involving as few moving parts as possible, and absolutely no adapters she had to learn how to use. And let’s be honest, Dear Readers – don’t we all … Continue reading

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Sunday Drives

Kage Baker loved Sunday drives. When we were little, she adored going out for anything at all with Daddy or one of the many, many Uncles. If she couldn’t call shotgun, she at least got a window seat and made … Continue reading

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Windows and Star Trek Movies

Kage Baker was sternly opposed to change just for its own sake. She liked novelty; but she abhorred its being pointless.” Improvements” to the things she used in her work and home were especially suspicious. Their only justification, in her … Continue reading

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New Stuff

Kage Baker disliked change. Intensely. She could cope with the huge, impersonal changes that happen all the time – nations rising and falling, seasons, weather, fashion, natural disasters. What she utterly loathed were changes to her personal environment. That ranged … Continue reading

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PSA April 1st

Kage Baker loathed changing computers. She loved sitting down to a nice, clean, fast, brand new machine; whenever we updated the equipment, she spent happy days re-customizing everything. What she hated was the physical process of changing out the hardware. … Continue reading

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Spring Fever

Kage Baker was the most productive person I have ever known. Not the fastest, not the most industrious. Not the most dedicated, even; though she could and did apply a grim and implacable determination to jobs when required. That was … Continue reading

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Writers Never Forget

Kage Baker was as susceptible to Spring fever as anyone else. She was just as likely to stare a soft silver spring day in the eye and surrender at 50 years old, as she had been at a dreamy 15. … Continue reading

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Spring: Okay, Probably

Kage Baker only used the calendar loosely to establish the turning seasons. As she said, (tenting her fingers and looking pious):  “The air and earth have their own ideas, which are based on rhythms man cannot entirely fathom nor control … Continue reading

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Spring?

Kage Baker liked Spring. Well, most people do, of course. Winter ends, the snow becomes scarce, flowers bloom, baby animals frolic through the new grass. The earth and air warm up, and with any luck (as Sir Terry Pratchett says) … Continue reading

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