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.

We’ve not come a long way, baby.

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A Congresswoman and twelve others in her district were shot today. At this time it seems politically motivated.

Here I was, ready to write a really dumb post about baking. People’s lives changed today. Some ended. Some had a family member’s end.

I do think Sarah Palin, while not responsible for this event, was absolutely irresponsible with her original crosshairs poster.

I am sickened.

Here’s what I Facebooked: “Considering today, ironic that Congress read the Constitution the other day. That thing is chock-a-block full of non-violent ways to get yourself heard, change leadership, and let your ideologies be known.” 

Yeah, not my best writing and a bit redundant there at the end, but you get my point.

And here’s the funny thing — I wouldn’t care which party, which politician, which people were the victims. I would still feel punched in the stomach.

Crying.  I thought we were better than this.