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.

Twitter Experiment

I started a Twitter account about a month or two ago. I didn’t tell anyone I know that I’m on it. Two people I know IRL “found” me. 26 other people are following.
Make that 25. I’ve noticed whenever I tweet about my kids, I lose follwers. When I tweet about politics, I lose followers.

It’s an interesting experiment to see what gets me lost. And found. And lost again.

I also am weirdly sad when someone I don’t know unfollows me.