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.

Catching Up

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I’m fatigued. Yeah, not like Olympic-athlete fatigued, but 3-kid-having-hosting-too-many-dinners-my-kids-are-bored fatigued.

Brief thoughts:

* I managed to make poached fish dry. The recipe was guaranteed to result in moist fish. It’s a gift, I tells ya!

* To balance that out, I made an orange cake with orange cream cheese frosting. That was moist. I’m guessing it snuck into the oven, sucked the moisture out of the fish, and gloated. It’s a gift, I tells ya!

* The baby spit up so hard this morning it came out her nose. Gross. That’s not a gift at all.

* My show is officially dead. The directors told me, after commissioning this thing, that it was “too big.” There was no effort to discuss what size they wanted. I am still heartsick about this, and too tired to try again right now.

* I worry that my opportunities, artistically, are drying up. This is a silly thing to think, of course, and totally fear-based. That’s my biggest gift, I tells ya.

And where there are gifts, there is cake. I’m off to raid the fridge for left-overs.