Author: 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.

Surviving Summer Funtimes 2019 — Week the Second

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I memorialized our second full week of Summer Funtimes in a series of Haiku I like to call…

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Kids ask “What’s for dinner?”almost as often as Isay what's for dinner.
This very next diveI’m sure will be the best oneYES, I'M WATCHING YOU.
Lemonade stands arebetter in theory than inPractice. No one's here.
My kids want to help
me at the grocery store.Clean up aisle nine.
I don’t like critters.Please don’t shove them in my face.Extreme close-up frog
Drink your water, please.Drink your water. Drink it all.Drink your water, please.
I was not warned ‘boutPutting sunscreen on wriggling.children. Use caution.
Remember that timewhen I sat and read a book?YEAH, I DON’T EITHER.
Oh, it’s just a scratch.Maybe a bruise. Or broken bone.Minute Clinic Bound.
Why are you still up?Didn’t this…

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