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Flicker. Flicker. Twinkle. OM …

Posted on December 9, 2016 by Kate

Kage Baker, as I have mentioned before, loved Christmas lights. I think it had a little to do with her manic adoration of fireworks – coloured sprays of light in the dark super-charged part of her brain. And Christmas lights … Continue reading →

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Hope Is Not Necessary

Posted on December 8, 2016 by Kate

Kage Baker used her writing as her final refuge from all pain and sorrow. She believed, with that particular iron faith she possessed, that it was possible to enter into another world through the screen of her computer. That she … Continue reading →

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Just Stand There

Posted on December 7, 2016 by Kate

Kage Baker was a firm believer in the old adage: Choose your battleground. She had no idea, initially, that this was a truism from the rediscovered General Sun Tzu and his Art of War. She rather scorned the hipster/corporate/would-be warriors … Continue reading →

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I Hae Gang Agley

Posted on December 3, 2016 by Kate

Kage Baker was seldom stopped from work by mere illness. She was indomitable that way. No mere microorganism ever kept her from her writing for long. If she was at all upright, she was at her computer, working away furiously. … Continue reading →

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December Dawns Dark

Posted on December 1, 2016 by Kate

Kage Baker both loved and distrusted December. It’s Christmas, it’s Dickens Fair, it’s coloured lights and favourite food and drink, it’s baking and roasting and tinsel and spiced wine and ribbons! But it’s also when most of the people she … Continue reading →

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I’ve Seen A Thing Or Two

Posted on November 29, 2016 by Kate

Kage Baker was of the opinion that no one who paid attention could ever get bored on a road trip. It helped that she was a born sight-seer, a natural tourist. It also helped that she was obsessive about details, … Continue reading →

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Meeting Magic

Posted on November 28, 2016 by Kate

Kage Baker‘s favorite activity at Dickens Fair was probably people-watching. Especially, she liked watching our singular special effect on the patrons – the magical glow that makes the customers believe in the enormous, complicated, Extreme Christmas card that is Dickens … Continue reading →

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Half Empty AND Half Full

Posted on November 21, 2016 by Kate

Kage Baker regulated her emotional life like clockwork – a carefully maintained series of gears and weights and counterweights and cunning escapements. Those aren’t ways of getting away; they are clever little devices that make toothed gears … pause … … Continue reading →

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November 9, 2016

Posted on November 9, 2016 by Kate

Kage Baker was attentive to politics. She studied everything on the ballots, she maintained her registration, she knew her representatives, she voted in every election. Nonetheless, she did not consider than politics should be discussed in every environment. Family dinners, … Continue reading →

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Blog #2 for Today; Building Dickens

Posted on November 7, 2016 by Kate

Kage Baker was always in charge of the packing for Fairs. She handled all the maps. She was my navigator. I miss her dreadfully when I have to do it for myself; not only because it means another Fair without … Continue reading →

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