Cat Pollock Writes

Update May 2020 - I'm currently going back through my Facebook posts and deciding what I want to leave up for public consumption and what I want to leave private (mostly photos of family that I don't want to leave accessible forever). I thought posting the text of those posts, along with some of the photos I'm okay with leaving public, here on the blog and backdating the posts to the days they went up would be a good alternative. If you've landed here in the midst of a difficult season (that is difficult for no fault of your own), I hope this helps. Leave a comment or send me a message (catpollockwrites @ gmail .com - remove the spaces) if you want someone to talk to, or even just someone to listen. ------------------------ Wednesday, June 26, 2019 - 10:52PM House fire saga update #7: Not much to update today. Today, Mom spent some time going through clothes that family and friends have given (mostly for the kids), while Dad went about his normal routine. To...

Update May 2020 - I'm currently going back through my Facebook posts and deciding what I want to leave up for public consumption and what I want to leave private (mostly photos of family that I don't want to leave accessible forever). I thought posting the text of those posts, along with some of the photos I'm okay with leaving public, here on the blog and backdating the posts to the days they went up would be a good alternative. If you've landed here in the midst of a difficult season (that is difficult for no fault of your own), I hope this helps. Leave a comment or send me a message (catpollockwrites @ gmail .com - remove the spaces) if you want someone to talk to, or even just someone to listen. ---------------------------- Tuesday, June 25, 2019 - 8:07PM House fire saga update #6: Today was a hard day, as we went onto the property with permission for the first time after the fire department cleared it. We went through storage sheds on the property that we...

Update May 2020 - I'm currently going back through my Facebook posts and deciding what I want to leave up for public consumption and what I want to leave private (mostly photos of family that I don't want to leave accessible forever). I thought posting the text of those posts, along with some of the photos I'm okay with leaving public, here on the blog and backdating the posts to the days they went up would be a good alternative. If you've landed here in the midst of a difficult season (that is difficult for no fault of your own), I hope this helps. Leave a comment or send me a message (catpollockwrites @ gmail .com - remove the spaces) if you want someone to talk to, or even just someone to listen. -------------------------- Monday, June 24, 2019 - 9:46AM House fire saga update #5: There wasn't much to update over the weekend, but we spent yesterday morning with our church family at New Life Baptist Church, which was a huge blessing and encouragement. I...

Update May 2020 - I'm currently going back through my Facebook posts and deciding what I want to leave up for public consumption and what I want to leave private (mostly photos of family that I don't want to leave accessible forever). I thought posting the text of those posts, along with some of the photos I'm okay with leaving public, here on the blog and backdating the posts to the days they went up would be a good alternative. If you've landed here in the midst of a difficult season (that is difficult for no fault of your own), I hope this helps. Leave a comment or send me a message (catpollockwrites @ gmail .com - remove the spaces) if you want someone to talk to, or even just someone to listen. ----------------------- Saturday, June 22, 2019 - 6:57AM House fire saga update #4: (Sorry for the lack of posts yesterday - I had some not-fire-related business to take care of in the afternoon before spending the evening with my parents, and it was pretty late wh...

Update May 2020 - I'm currently going back through my Facebook posts and deciding what I want to leave up for public consumption and what I want to leave private (mostly photos of family that I don't want to leave accessible forever). I thought posting the text of those posts, along with some of the photos I'm okay with leaving public, here on the blog and backdating the posts to the days they went up would be a good alternative. If you've landed here in the midst of a difficult season (that is difficult for no fault of your own), I hope this helps. Leave a comment or send me a message (catpollockwrites @ gmail .com - remove the spaces) if you want someone to talk to, or even just someone to listen. ------------------------- Friday, June 21, 2019 - 9:10AM House fire saga update #3: I know a lot of people are asking about how they can help, but part of the reason we're having trouble saying what is needed is that basic and immediate needs are being met (Y...

Update May 2020 - I'm currently going back through my Facebook posts and deciding what I want to leave up for public consumption and what I want to leave private (mostly photos of family that I don't want to leave accessible forever). I thought posting the text of those posts, along with some of the photos I'm okay with leaving public, here on the blog and backdating the posts to the days they went up would be a good alternative. If you've landed here in the midst of a difficult season (that is difficult for no fault of your own), I hope this helps. Leave a comment or send me a message (catpollockwrites @ gmail .com - remove the spaces) if you want someone to talk to, or even just someone to listen. ------------------ Thursday, June 20, 2019 - 4:32PM House fire saga update #2: We snuck into the house (again) today and took a look around. A few of the things that made it through are in today's pictures. 1) a stack of water bottles in my uncle's bedroo...

Update May 2020 - I'm currently going back through my Facebook posts and deciding what I want to leave up for public consumption and what I want to leave private (mostly photos of family that I don't want to leave accessible forever). I thought posting the text of those posts, along with some of the photos I'm okay with leaving public, here on the blog and backdating the posts to the days they went up would be a good alternative. This blog post is dedicated to all of the fire-related post on Facebook that are not specifically updates and backdated to the most recent of said posts. If you've landed here in the midst of a difficult season (that is difficult for no fault of your own), I hope this helps. Leave a comment or send me a message (catpollockwrites @ gmail .com - remove the spaces) if you want someone to talk to, or even just someone to listen. --------------------------------------- Tuesday, June 18, 2019 - 3:59PM So. Once I get my head around this, I...

Update May 2020 - I'm currently going back through my Facebook posts and deciding what I want to leave up for public consumption and what I want to leave private (mostly photos of family that I don't want to leave accessible forever). I thought posting the text of those posts, along with some of the photos I'm okay with leaving public, here on the blog and backdating the posts to the days they went up would be a good alternative. If you've landed here in the midst of a difficult season (that is difficult for no fault of your own), I hope this helps. Leave a comment or send me a message (catpollockwrites @ gmail .com - remove the spaces) if you want someone to talk to, or even just someone to listen. ---------------------- Wednesday, June 19, 2019 - 4:48PM House fire saga update #1: For those of you who didn't know, my sister and I live in one of other two houses on the corner that didn't burn. We didn't lose electricity, but we lost running water b...

Happy Thursday! It's been five months since the last time I posted any updates on life/projects/etc (see January 2019 Project Update if you want to catch up before going further). I'm writing this post while in recovery mode - from being sick, from Vacation Bible School, etc. - so if I sound less than coherent, that's why. I'm also in the middle of a pretty crazy life change, which I'm not quite ready to talk about yet, but will share in the soonest update after everything has settled down. In the meantime, here is where I'm at with all of my projects. Where I'm at with The Switch Series While I had plans to be finished with the second draft of Izzy and the Safari Switch  by this point, the reality is that I'm only about halfway through. I knew the second draft was going to need a heavy hand with the rewrites, but I did not realize how much until I dove into it. Yup, still rockin' the same cover concept as January, too! On the...

Happy Thursday! I don't know where all of your reading adventures have taken you in the last few months, but mine  carried me in a direction I was not expecting (in the best way possible). I signed up for the Daily Science Fiction email list, which has delivered some excellent flash fiction to my inbox every week day ever since. As is usually the case, this quarter's reading round up is not a complete list - just the highlights. Links to the last three round ups: Summer 2018 Fall 2018 Winter 2018/19   The list of books I've reviewed in the last three months includes a story with one of the best female main characters I've seen in a while (excepting for Dagger from Zombie Playlist - love you, Dagger) , military science fiction, a lot of time travel, and a dip into the alternative history genre. You can read what exactly what I thought of each of them by clicking on the review links below. Always Gray in Winter  - Mark J. Engels (March) Machine S...