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.

Self-discipline is remembering what you really want

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I am working on a monologue where I play a pumpkin with an Irish accent.  

I’m not sure what I want and I’m not sure what I ever wanted, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t that.

The show opens next week.  It feels similar to, but not the same as what I eventually want to do…whatever that is.  This is not to say I’m not appreciative and it is not to say I’m not having fun.  I enjoy doing shows like this, especially with people I like.  There are some talented folks in this show.  I am getting my silly on.  It’s just that something else — The Project — claws at me, waiting to be fulfilled.

More later this week…I’m contemplating with-it-ness.  My teaching background is mewing in my ears a lot this week.