The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling by Peter Ackroyd I took a class in Middle English in college, and quickly realized that it was about as comprehensible as Dutch. Unlike Shakespeare, Middle English has to be translated. Too bad, because what I read of The Canterbury Tales seemed interesting. So when I saw this at the …
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Dec 26
Thorny Pot
I bought this pot specifically to re-pot a gardenia plant I have in my front yard. I thought about using tile mosaics, or glass piece mosaic, but my mosaic-tile production wasn’t coming along fast enough so I decided to glaze it instead. I’m always startled by how patchy the glazes come out. Even when I …
Dec 26
Smiley Ball 17
I had so many of these, I didn’t want to put them all on my blog at once. Now they are placeholders for different photo sessions. I don’t know what that hair is, but it might be cat hair.
Dec 10
Poppy Plate 1
My friend Gabrielle brought a magazine into our pottery class with an interesting technique in which the potter painted flowers on white slip using different hues of tinted slips. I decided to try it out. Since we had a myriad of greens, the obvious choice for subject matter was botanical.
About
Kater Cheek has a BA in Linguistics from the University of Washington, and is a graduate of Clarion San Diego, class of 2007. For her day job, Kater works as a writer in the internal marketing department for a giant global corporation. She also does freelance writing and editing on occasion. Kater has sold short …