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.

Coffee. NaNoWriMo Day 19

Words Today: 1782

Total Words: 43,978


 

I had coffee with one of my best friends today. It’s been too long since I’ve done that, since I’ve allowed myself a morning to stop and connect and listen and blurt. It’s easy with her, though, because she is brilliant and kind and the only reason I’m ok with her being funnier than I am is that, well, she’s funnier than I am, so I end up laughing a lot. She gets me. I get her. She’s my person.

And the coffee? Quite good.

I came home to this:

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and got right to work.

How could I not? My fingers fly on caffeine.