Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Catherine Cheek
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Mar 18
Bottlecaps First Group
Whenever I want to do a small project that doesn’t involve a lot of thought and preparation, I make some of these bottlecap magnets. I bought a special hole-punch which cuts circles of exactly 1″ in diameter, which makes this project go even faster. First I get about 24 bottlecaps, throwing out any that are …
Mar 14
Book Review: Happens Every Day
Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Story by Isabel Gillies I got this as an audiobook from audible, read by the author. This is a sub-genre that I haven’t read much, a sub-genre one of my teachers called “Adirondacks chair books” because they usually have an Adirondacks chair on the cover, symbolizing a woman who has …
Mar 12
Here Birdy! Birdy!: How Not To Pick Up Women
So this guy approached me in the local supermarket. He was in his mid thirties or early forties, dressed casual but not sloppy, black, but not unattractive. He said “excuse me” and asked me what my name is. We were on the far side of the store with the socks and make up and feminine …
Mar 11
Book Review: The Deadliest Sea
Deadliest Sea: The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History by Kalee Thompson This had been on my “to read” shelf for so long that I’d forgotten why it sounded so familiar when someone lent me a copy of the book. I have a soft spot for maritime tragedies, and for heroics …
Mar 11
Sky-Veined Cup
This is one of the cups that I made in the glassblowing class I took this spring. One of my goals for the class was to make a cup that I could give to a friend, whose birthday was in early March. I made these lines by trailing a stringer of light blue color around …