Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Catherine Cheek
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Mar 12
Book Review: The Pocket Therapist
The Pocket Therapist: An Emotional Survival Kit by Therese Borchard This book is a quick read, with short one or two page chapters that each have simple headings. I wasn’t expecting much. I usually don’t care for the sort of touchy-feely, feel-good, get-in-tune-with-yourself stuff, but I was hoping this would provide some sort of blueprint …
Mar 10
Book Review: The Smart Swarm
The Smart Swarm by Peter Miller This is one of those rare, great books that manage to talk about many different fields of science and weave them together. It uses the habits and organizations of social animals (bees, ants, starlings, etc.) and relates it to how people interact with one another. It touches on everything …
Mar 02
Small Raven Tile Mosaic
I made several small, plain tiles so that I could experiment with wax resist and painterly techniques. I painted this using black underglaze. My tiles are hand pounded (and rolled) so the consistency isn’t ideal, but that’s kind of the point of hand-made tiles. This is about four inches square and about a quarter of …
Feb 27
Novel Writing Advice
My friend and fellow Clarionite Justin sent me an email the other day, asking for advice on writing novels. He had just finished the first three chapters of his novel, and it wasn’t going well, and he wanted my advice on finding beta readers to set him on the right path. I got a little …
Feb 27
Smiley Ball 19
I think this is one of the smiley balls that I traded away for someone else’s pot. This is the last of the smiley balls I had photographed, except the small ones.