Category Archives: Creative non-fiction

Here Comes The Sun (Again), So I’m Wearing My Best Shorts

March 24, 2018Creative non-fiction, Fixed Up, Gratitude, Parenting, Publications, The Sun Magazine, WritingJackie Pick

I’ve received a lot of happy news this week.

I am so excited to be back in The Sun again this month. The theme was “What Matters Most.” You can read my submission here, and I strongly encourage you to get a subscription to this gorgeous magazine.

I mean, this cover alone is stunning:

I also found out that the film I produced and co-wrote, Fixed Up, won top honors at the Best Shorts Competition this past week. I’ll be blogging more about that in coming days.

For now, we are knee-deep in Spring Break, here where the weather is gray and windy. We warm ourselves with takeout wings and sit close on the couch to watch finals of games I could care less about, but that fascinate the rest of my gang.

It’s pretty wonderful.

May your team win or lose with abandon.

In the Trenches with Hazmat Suits

March 9, 2018Creative non-fiction, Gratitude, Humor, Multiples Illuminated, Nevertheless We Perisisted, ParentingJackie Pick

Announcement: I’ve unlocked a new parenting level. Without my cajoling, my kids have shared and taken turns.

Sadly, it’s with the flu.

One was home from school all last week with one of those terrible, turn-of-the-century dry hacking coughs, body aches, and low fever. No medicines alleviated his symptoms. He couldn’t sleep at night because of the severity of the cough.

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