Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Catherine Cheek
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Aug 08
Mosaic Terra Cotta Pot
I’ve had this terra cotta pot under my studio table for just about a year, waiting for the project I wanted to do with it. Finally, I decided that I needed a pot for some succulents, so now was the time. I started by coming up with a short phrase to put around the lip. …
Aug 07
Book Review: Incognito, The Secret Lives of the Brain
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman INCOGNITO is at its heart, a pop science book about neurology. I saw this in the bookstore and pegged it as interesting, but didn’t realize I’d read something else by this author until holding the book in my hands. Eagleman is the author of the …
Aug 03
Book Review: Dance With Dragons
A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin I enjoyed this book, not like an oenophile enjoys a nice glass of wine, but the way a crackhead enjoys a shiny new vial of poison. If you’ve been reading the Song of Ice and Fire, you know that a series based on plot twists, cliffhanger endings, …
Aug 01
Ceramic Ball
This looks a lot like a smiley ball without a face, doesn’t it? I wanted to do something as close to a sphere as I could manage, just because it’s pretty easy and it’s sometimes nice to have a heavy ball to roll around in your hands. I coated it with red iron oxide (as …
Aug 01
Writing Advice: Prologues
Dear Blog Friends: This is my first flowchart. I used visio, only to find that wordpress doesn’t want me to post visio documents for “security reasons.” Um. Okay. Gimp to the rescue! It’s not a pretty flowchart. I’d like to have colors and have it a little tidier, but as this was my first …