Category Archives: Essay

A Year With Three Kitties, by Jeff Baker. February 12, 2025.

Posted on February 12, 2025 by jeffbaker307

A Year With Three Kitties by Jeff Baker February 12, 2025 Exactly one year ago, February 12, 2024 I drove the 240 mile, four-and-a-half-hour trip from my Brother’s family’s house to my house in Wichita with something very special; I … Continue reading →

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Transfigured Night, or 4000 Miles Round-Trip. By Jeff “Mike” Baker. July 31, 2024.

Posted on August 1, 2024 by jeffbaker307

Tucumcari, NM Transfigured Night by Jeff Baker Here’s a couple of stories from my long (4,000+ miles!) drive from Wichita through Arizona, New Mexico and California and back again. “We left for Frisco in your Rambler…” —Diesel, Sausilito Summernight I … Continue reading →

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When I’m Sixty-Four by Jeff Baker. July 21, 2024.

Posted on July 21, 2024 by jeffbaker307

I turned 64 on Saturday July 20th, 2024! Celebrated with some good friends (like kitty above!) and grilled burgers and ate too much cake. The night sky was cloudy or I would have gone out Moon-watching. The near-full Moon on … Continue reading →

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“Three Kings.” A Blog Post (and Some Nostalgia) From Jeff Baker

Posted on May 29, 2024 by jeffbaker307

Three Kings by Jeff Baker I’ve told this story before. Sometime around the fall semester of 1981 when I was in College, one weekend when I had no homework and didn’t have to go work at my job I grabbed … Continue reading →

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“The Day The Shadows Bent.” Watching the April 8th Eclipse by Jeff Baker

Posted on April 11, 2024 by jeffbaker307

The Day the Shadows Bent by Jeffrey Scott Baker (April 8th, 2024) I decided not to deal with the traffic and go see the total eclipse, besides I’d seen the total one in 2017. And I had things to do … Continue reading →

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Seven Things Compiled By Jeff Baker

Posted on March 19, 2024 by jeffbaker307

Seven Things Compiled By Jeff Baker My friend J. Scott Coatsworth has posted in a column, a list of seven things, as he put it “Seven good things in my life that make life worth living.” He was commenting that … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year, 1969! From Jeff Baker, December 31, 2023.

Posted on December 31, 2023 by jeffbaker307

Happy New Year! From Jeff Baker (December 31, 2023) Here’s my New Year’s Eve Story. December 31st, 1969 my Mom & Dad went down the street to a party, leaving me with a babysitter; Jan, the girl who lived next … Continue reading →

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“Eric’s Buddy” article on RoM/Mantic Reads by Jeff Baker.

Posted on December 7, 2022 by jeffbaker307

RoM/Mantic Reads (the E-Zine I’m a contributor to) has kindly posted my analysis of a Gay-themed episode of “That 70’s Show,” and how it could have been only the beginning! My thanks to Fiona Glass for maintaining the site! https://rommanticreads.wordpress.com/2022/12/06/jeff-baker-erics-buddy-a-deep-dive-into-that-70s-shows-gayest-episode/?fbclid=IwAR2zxopvqLVNyepfrVpyzsqeFRbtFlorGF0vvhZugfOBeNO-Ol5Tbe5KqtY

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Reading a Teen-Age Outer Space Story (Golly!) Jeff Baker, February 6th, 2022

Posted on February 6, 2022 by jeffbaker307

I haven’t done as much writing as I should but I have kicked it up a notch on the reading in the last month. Yesterday, I bummed through a paperback edition of a 1962 Y. A. anthology “Teen-Age Outer Space … Continue reading →

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Ron Goulart: An Appreciation. By Jeff Baker. January 15, 2022

Posted on January 16, 2022 by jeffbaker307

Ron Goulart: An Appreciation by Jeff Baker Ron Goulart. Comic book historian, expert on pulp fiction and a master of blending humor with science fiction, fantasy, horror and mystery, has died just after his 89th birthday. I never met Ron … Continue reading →

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