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Looking Around The Corners

Posted on August 4, 2016 by Kate

Kage Baker was a cautious person. She’d have been a happy conspiracy theorist, except she didn’t trust other people’s conclusions. She disliked change. She was suspicious of new things. She preferred to check out a situation from afar before she … Continue reading →

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Surfaces … Misty Water-Coloured Surfaces …

Posted on August 3, 2016 by Kate

Kage Baker was fascinated by the differences between surfaces and interiors. That constantly occurring mystery – what lies beneath? – struck her as one of the more important questions in the general philosophy of life. Maybe it was because she … Continue reading →

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Happy Lammastide

Posted on August 2, 2016 by Kate

Kage Baker always celebrated Lammas with pizza. She said it was the closest thing she could get to a flaming wheel, which was an image she connected with the holiday – the Sun In Splendour, bonfires, bale fire on hilltops, … Continue reading →

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A Change In Vision

Posted on July 15, 2016 by Kate

Kage Baker had (usually) black eyes. They went oddly and dramatically with her paper-pale skin, freckles and red hair – but she had her father’s eyes, and he was mostly North Eastern Native American. Mrs. Baker occasionally sighed regretfully that … Continue reading →

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Ways To Be Safe and Happy

Posted on July 9, 2016 by Kate

Kage Baker never felt completely safe. She was a tremendously brave person – in that the world in general scared her dreadfully, and her life was an exercise in finding ways to avoid, defeat and cure that fear. In which … Continue reading →

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The Day After

Posted on July 5, 2016 by Kate

Kage Baker was often taken to Pismo Beach as a child, for her family’s summer vacation. For some reason – probably having to do with the expense and difficulty of housing 8, 9, 10 people or more, depending on who … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday, America

Posted on July 4, 2016 by Kate

Kage Baker was a responsible, patriotic American. She paid her taxes, served on juries without complaint, voted in every election – even volunteered at polling places between jobs. She came of a family where military and civil service jobs were … Continue reading →

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Spacer. Sparkly Spacer.

Posted on July 2, 2016 by Kate

Kage Baker was a fanatic devotee of fireworks. She went to happy extremes to watch and use them, which I hope to talk about at some length – tomorrow. Tonight, I am going to bed early. I’m tired, from having … Continue reading →

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Birthday Dreams and Memories

Posted on July 1, 2016 by Kate

Kage Baker vastly enjoyed celebrating birthdays.  And she enjoyed other people’s birthdays every bit as much as her own – as long as there was plenty of opportunity for decorations, furbelows, squibs, confetti, banners and all other manner of domestic … Continue reading →

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Bisy – Backson

Posted on June 28, 2016 by Kate

Kage Baker was a salamander. A desert nymph – a cactacead? – or a fire elemental or an actual genie: they’re supposed to be smokeless flames in their natural forms. Maybe a dragon of some sort; she was partly of … Continue reading →

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