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.

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With three kids and a husband down with the flu for a month (what? Me get it? Not allowed) longer posts are a bit of a dream.

To tide us over, here are some random sleep-deprived thoughts I’ve shared with the never-judgmental people on Twitter.

  • Parenthood: where every family dinner becomes an unwitting jug band performance.
  • Rooting for the Cubs is like getting back together with an ex. You think this time will be different. There is new magic mixed with the comfortable…and then the familiar hurt.
  • Yesterday I felt like I was run over by the truck from Maximum Overdrive. Today I feel like I was run over by Ed Begley Jr’s car. You may insert your own road to recovery joke here.

If you’d like to be absolutely NOT suffering the flu with me, or just for some smallish giggles, you can find me here on Twitter.

Send Tylenol.