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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The baby hasn’t slept since 3 this morning.  The boys are finding new and interesting places to hide their toothbrushes.  My office is a disaster area. Laundry is backing up. I think I’m having PMS but I can’t be sure. People are looking down on the poor parents who brought their children to the Batman Movie in Aurora that fateful night. Gun sales are spiking in Colorado.

Sure, they’re going about it legally. They may even take classes.  Just like everyone who wants to drive a car. But the classes and license don’t necessarily make them better or more responsible gun owners any more than classes and license make people better or more responsible drivers.

I’ll take people’s road rage without their access to a deadly weapon, thank you very much.