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.

My Year in Photos — Week 5

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January 28 -February 3

Maybe if I stopped taking pictures of the mess and started cleaning it...if only life were more like Star Trek, where there was never a mess.
This little science officer examines his tricorder.
Fascinating, Captain.
As Daddy was putting their new dresser together, there was trouble with Twin Tribbles. (Twibbles?)
No replicators were involved in the making of this beautiful dresser. Good job, Captain Huzzy!
Reading Rainbow is Fundamental. (See what I did there?)
My responsibilities as Communcations Officer is to help translate alien languages. (This one says "Logan" but with both a capital and lower-case "l." And the "A" tilts to the side.

 

One of the benefits of space travel is learning that not all humanoids look like us. Some have fewer teeth.

 

I need to repair the replicator. This is not tea, Earl Grey, hot.