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.

Not an A-hole this week, OR Maybe I should just start every project with a good sob…

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Sobbing seems to reset me. It’s as though the self-pity overflows and exits via the tear ducts.

Then I find the fun.

Once the “Woe is me” cry happened after that first rehearsal, I worked. I worked hard. The songs wiggled and jiggled and tickled at odd moments of housework and baby care and nodding off.

It became something I couldn’t not do. I felt good. I felt great. I was having fun!

Had a wonderful rehearsal with it, which I will blog about more later on. I felt successful. I felt I was in the right place doing the right thing. I felt inspiring. I put young 20-somethings at ease and (hopefully) made them feel like they will shine.

I keep promising certain topics and I have a list of “things to get back to” which I will. Life is calming down.

I finally had that feeling in an improv/sketch comedy/Chicago theater show. I’ve only been waiting 2 years. 

Bliss!