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.

My Life is a Gender Stereotype-Reinforcing Sitcom

I walked in on my dad assembling two umbrella strollers for the boys so that we didn’t have to lug the MegaStroller around the block. He struggled trying to get the damned things to unfold. He struggled for many minutes. Many. Finally…

Me: Dad, did you read the directions?

Dad: (Gives me dirty look) No. There are no directions.  (Continues wrestling with strollers)

Me: What’s that in the back pocket of the stroller?

Dad: Directions.

Three minutes later the strollers were assembled.