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.

How Much Mucus Can One Baby Head Hold?

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Please don’t answer that.  Monkey L. is sick for the first time.  While I’m thrilled that we’ve really gone 21 months with nary a problem, illness is fighting back with a vengeance.  His whole head is swollen.  He’s barfing mucus.  He’s exhausted and yet not sleeping. 

My with-it-ness has, momentarily, converted to with-him-ness, while also trying to mother Monkey J.  And go to two shows to support people I admire in the theater community.  And my own tech rehearsals for my show, opening tomorrow.

I cannot cannot cannot wait to stop writing lame posts get to the Project.  I think I can exhale AND blog AND write by Sunday. 

I can’t wait to share the latest ideas for The Show, and some inspirations for The Novel.  Which will win the title of The Project?