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.

Free to Be Me and You

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I have a writing partner, in theory.  This is new and exciting on several levels.  Mostly because she is awesome and brilliant and a great writer *and*  a teacher.  Partly because I need more practice in letting go of my cling-to-something-until-it-cracks need to control.

I’m going to see how this plays out.  At *worst* I will have someone to bounce ideas off of.  At best…brilliance.

I finally and unsurprisingly caught the cold that L. and J. have been coughing in my face for weeks.  It’s gross and my nose hurts.

I am, however, working on my 2010 resolution to Yes, And stuff.  The fact that it’s December 29 fazes me not.