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.

Wait — it’s SNOWING?

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It would seem that the same people who bitch and moan on Facebook about snowstorms, disrupted schedules, and how bad public transportation gets when there is BIG WEATHER also complain on said Facebook about lack of precipitation, disrupted schedules, and how bad public transportation gets when there is SMALL WEATHER.

If you have a roof over your head and can get around safely in this — or better, not have to get around at all — please just say a small thank you to whatever you do (or do not) believe in, be grateful for those men and women keeping roads as clear as possible/policing our streets/driving the ambulances, and marvel in meteorological forces that are bigger than you.

If you really feel a need to suffer, turn on the tv and listen to the 45-minute weather report on any local channel. Snow Trumps Revolution in Egypt!