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Fruit Season

Posted on June 18, 2019 by Kate

Kage Baker loved summer fruit. Plums were her favourite, Santa Rosa plums, but she also loved the huge big golden peaches that come into season in June. She claimed to be indifferent to grapes, but she would sit beside a … Continue reading →

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Who Really Likes Mondays? I Mean, Really?

Posted on June 17, 2019 by Kate

Kage Baker loathed Mondays. Of course she did. Most people do, at least some of the time. A lot of it, once we began to expand our vices beyond the candy store and the cookie jar, is suffering the after-effects … Continue reading →

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Father’s Day

Posted on June 16, 2019 by Kate

Kage Baker adored her father. He deserved it, too – George Baker was an extraordinary man. I was privileged to know him for most of my life, even though he did tell me once that eating black licorice would surely … Continue reading →

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Summer of The Spiders: The Return

Posted on June 15, 2019 by Kate

Kage Baker tried hard to write through any problem she ever had. She succeeded an amazing amount of the time. Her focus was inhuman, essentially becoming tunnel vision and elective deafness. Stephen King, in one of his excellent essays on … Continue reading →

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Found My Writing Hat

Posted on June 14, 2019 by Kate

Kage Baker was a firm proponent of setting her writing area up properly. That included drinks she liked (Coca Cola)  in a ritually correct vessel (red glass), with assorted writing fetishes (Mr. Crabs, beach glass, several small lighthouses …) scattered … Continue reading →

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I’ve Caught A Fever

Posted on June 13, 2019 by Kate

Kage Baker burned with a constant high fever. She was like the Ghost of Christmas Past: capped with a flickering flame, like a torch. You couldn’t literally see it – but if you spent some time with her, that flame … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday

Posted on June 10, 2019 by Kate

Kage Baker’s birthday is today. She would have been 67 years old – eye to eye with 70, and probably complaining about it. I can’t quite imagine what she would look like at this age. The ways I have changed … Continue reading →

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Vivat Aeternum, Dennis: II

Posted on June 9, 2019 by Kate

Kage Baker, when once asked what she had actually done at the Renaissance Faire, replied: “I learned to cheat out, make eye contact, and be as loud as I could be, from an ex-Mouseketeer standing on a hay bale drinking … Continue reading →

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Vivat Aeternum, Dennis: I

Posted on June 6, 2019 by Kate

Kage Baker commented, in her last few weeks, that she was glad she was leaving before more of the people she loved died. Our brethren and sistren of Faire, in particular, had begun to tatter away in great numbers into … Continue reading →

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*Discontinuity*

Posted on June 5, 2019 by Kate

Kage Baker was well aware that bad shit happens and doesn’t care about schedules or plans. People get sick, you get a headache or the stomach flu or a piece of the broken antique vase you just smashed  in your … Continue reading →

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