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.

Updates

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I am spending moments this summer updating the look of my page and showing my writing the loving care it deserves, honoring my writing time, taking it seriously by playing with it each day. I am writing 6 days a week now, between moments I spend breathless with my children. These are happy days with the slow and relatively stress-free pace of summer — I am constantly cocking an eye towards the heavens in search of that dreaded other shoe, which I assume is a pointy stiletto aimed for my eyeball.

I just finished reading Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks. It is a tremendous and oddly captivating novel, and the first time I’ve cried while reading in a long time. Read it for the music of the language alone, although the plot is similarly captivating.

Speaking of updates, here is a little throwback to a short film I worked on last year called Update.

I’m off to write. The day is warm and rainy.