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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.

100/47/18

Parenting, Writing

 

I have been working on a cute little piece about today being my kids’ 100th day of school this year.

A piece with jokes about what 100 things might also mark this auspicious occasion (i.e. reminding them to brush their teeth every morning for the last 100 days.)

The only thought I have today is that this year, I’ve sent my kids to school 100 times praying that they stay safe. 100 times this year they’ve come home without having been shot. They’ve also not been shot at in a theater, an arcade, a house of worship, or a city street.

Yet.

Yet is the word that hisses and begs to be added to that sentence in the interest of honesty and possibility.

I won’t repeat the memes and the anguished data points right now. I will note with disgust that other than obfuscation and pissy folks trying vainly to be keyboard constitutional scholars…

nothing will be done.

Yet.

 

On Learning to Exhale and Give My Spleen a Staycation

Creative non-fiction, Humor, , , , ,

I threw out my shapewear yesterday.

Surprisingly, over the years I’ve amassed quite a collection.

Unsurprisingly I was able to squeeze the entire lot of it into one small bag.

Spanx, Flexees, Wacoal, Gee You Have A Fat Asset.  Off-brand. Expensive. Bargain Brand. Spandex. Bone-in. Rib-Eye.

All designed to smooth things out. To make clothes “lie” better. That’s the line, right?

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2018 Audie Award Finalist: Nevertheless We Persisted

Books, Creative non-fiction, Nevertheless We Perisisted, Writing,

I’m very excited to announce that Nevertheless We Persisted is a finalist for a 2018 Audie (the audiobook equivalent of an Oscar or a Grammy.) I am a proud contributor to this amazing compilation of stories and poems. Special thanks and congratulations to Blunder Woman Productions for their hard work on this labor of love.

You can learn more about this anthology and my part in it by clicking here.

The awards will be announced on May 31, 2018. I’ll keep you posted.

Congratulations to all the finalists in all of the categories.