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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.

Greatest Hits

Humor, Parenting, Writing

Hello! No new blog post this week; however, as Mother’s Day approaches here are some of my more popular posts about parenting. Feel free to take a look while pretending you can’t hear your children shouting at each other to be quiet while they burn your breakfast-in-bed toast.

Mother’s Day 2016

It’s Ok To Say You’re a Mother

Promises Made, Promises Kept

A Mother’s Vacation Gratitude Journal

 

I’ll be back next week with new content. Happy Mother’s Day!

We’re Not the Bloodhound Gang, But There’s Trouble and We’re There on the Double

For the love of a dog, Humor, Things that smell, ,

Everything they say about Labs is true.

I now call him Dogus, as does most of the family, and since he doesn’t respond to any name, nor to most commands, nor to squeaky toys, it’s purely for my own amusement.

In the last four weeks, he’s eaten my daughter’s birthday cake, an entire loaf of bread, two blueberry English muffins, a bag of potato chips, two donuts (and the box), and…

 

half of a raspberry danish.

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WOW! Did You Hear That?

The Sun Magazine, WOW! Women on Writing, Writing

Happy Friday!

I was happy to learn that I made the top ten of the WOW! Women on Writing Creative Nonfiction Q2 contest. It’s a website that I respect and enjoy a lot, so to do that well gives me the happies.

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