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.

Sick Day

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Like unicorns and comfortable underwire bras, the Mama Sick Day is something of a myth.  Whereas once upon a time, we could hork up bodily fluids wearing our ugliest, looking our ugliest, smelling our ugliest, all while binging on reruns of the Golden Girls and tearing into that herbal tea sampler that one well-cultured friend brought over that one time.

The passage of time and the birthing of children have not eliminated sick days entirely; sick days have just gotten sportier.

To that end, today I will be updating my blog several times, sharing the realities of being sick with children, a dog, and a never-ending pile of laundry.

Because it’s not like I’m going to be able to get any rest.