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.

Apology

A Sincere and Authentically Offered Apology As Given on the Advice of my Legal Team in response to events* stemming from “Field Trip Chaperone Life Lessons.”

This Is Just To Say

I have apologized to
your children
who were on
the field trip
 
and whom
you were probably
assuming
I wrote about
 
Forgive me
I wasn’t even
really watching them
also, I ate your plums.

*Someone left a copy of the blog post and a pair of shredded yoga pants on my front porch.  The joke’s on them: I’ve only tried yoga once in my life. It was a prenatal class. I never got past the downward dog. Hell, I didn’t get past the snack bar. (The joke’s on me, really, because I’m still wearing maternity pants two years later.)