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.

I want

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I want to write. I want I want I want to write.
I’m feverish, exhausted, trying to mother, trying to grow a baby, trying to stay focused on one thought, trying to rest.

I want to write. I can’t put thoughts together while my head pounds and my chest rattles and my nose fills and blocks and drains over and over.

My tooth broke again, 10 days after being repaired. I can’t sob the way I want to over feeling so helpless.

I want to write. I can’t until I can think and stop and breathe.