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 4

Week 4 — January 21-27

Someone found the goody bag from the party we went to. Someone has yet to learn the word "moderation."

 

Fun new ways to say "Very Good." Some of them don't even sound forced.

 

Waiting for our first-ever milkshake. We're skeptical.

 

How YOU doin'?

 

How could his dreams be anything but sweet?

 

The Big Boy dresser has arrived. Daddy will put it together only to hate the color, return it, and start anew in a few days.

 

My frustrations from yesterday. Not 45 minutes after cleaning the house, I needed to start over. I wish I were able to write/think/read with clutter in the house.