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.

Back on Mamalode Today — It’s All in the Belly

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Jackie Pick's avatarJackie Pick

I’m back up on Mamalode today with a piece that seems to resonate differently with different people. Different folks, different lenses and all that. Definitely a challenging piece to write, even more so to submit. But I’ve been asking myself, “What would I do if I weren’t afraid?” And then doing it. Within reason.

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Heads up, I wrote it in second-person. That’s not everyone’s cuppa.

Please check it out: It’s All in the Belly

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