Cate started writing in childhood, first penning scripts for neighborhood puppet shows, later writing and editing student newspapers, and eventually becoming a contributor for Milwaukee Magazine, Shepherd Express, and other newspapers and magazines.Cate wrote extensively as a public relations, marketing, and fundraising executive for many years. She also edited and published a memoir by Maestro John Anello called Musical Memories, and she was a member of the editing and publishing team for Dreams and Secrets, a book of stories published by Woodland Pattern Bookstore.Since the early 2000s, Cate has been a cooking instructor for the Milwaukee Department of Recreation, teaching easy, economical, ethnic, and healthy cookery. She also produced cooking events, including the French cooking demonstrations at Bastille Days.Cate published her first children's book, Everything You Say About Me THAT'S WONDERFUL is True, in 2019. It's an A-to-Z prescription for happiness in twenty-six alphabetical poems about positive qualities with diverse and inclusive illustrations by Amy Kleinhans.Cate has submitted her first play, SHOOT! In Which Mom Shoots Our Nazi Neighbor Heinrich, a comic tribute to her mother, to several local theater companies for their consideration. Her two dogs, Oscar Wild and Señor Alfredo El Bump Butt, are her security forces and blessed companions.
