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About Jackie Pick

Jackie Pick is a former teacher and current writer living in the Chicago area. She is a contributing author to multiple anthologies, including Multiples Illuminated, So Glad They Told Me: Women Get Real about Motherhood, Here in the Middle, as well as the and the literary magazines The Sun and Selfish. She received Honorable Mention from the Mark Twain House and Museum for her entry in the Royal Nonesuch Humor Writing Competition. Jackie is a contributing writer at Humor Outcasts, and her essays have been featured on various online sites including McSweeney's, Belladonna Comedy, Mamalode, The HerStories Project, and Scary Mommy. A graduate of the University of Chicago and Northwestern University, Jackie is co-creator and co-writer of the award-winning short film Fixed Up, and a proud member of the 2017 Chicago cast of Listen To Your Mother.

New Piece Up on McSweeney’s

Humor, McSweeney's, Publications

Good day to you, friends! I have a new piece up on McSweeney’s!

Please feel free to click over and check it out, then definitely pour yourself some coffee and poke around the site. There’s so much good material on there!

Huge thanks to the good folks over there for many many reasons.

 

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May 2020 — We the People in Review.

Month in Review, Recommendations

Here is a resource if you need greater understanding of the depths of racism in this country and/or some ideas on how to address racism on macro- and micro-levels. If these aren’t enough, please use Google.

Anti-racism resources


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Pruning the Peace Lily – April 2020 Month in Review

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I have one houseplant, a peace lily, probably, which I was given my last day of teaching. Its name is Wolverine, for it is practically indestructible (at least for a few decades) no matter if I water or don’t water, if I feed or don’t feed, if I give it too much or too little sun, if it’s cold or warm.

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