About me - Jackie Papandrew
I am a writer/editor with credits in dozens of publications, including The Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Oklahoman and the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. My column appears weekly in several newspapers in the United States and Canada. The column - called Airing
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The Desperate Dad's Guide to Getting SomeModern moms, it seems, are just not in the mood. Pummeled by children and chores, exhausted by careers and carpools, once hot mammas are now too whupped for whoopee, too crabby to conjugate. I hate to say it, fellas, but at day's end, we'd often rather curl up in the baggiest pair of g... More..
- Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Thanksgiving
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What do you get when you take a dozen family members of varying ages and degrees of regularity, put them in the woods in a cabin with one low-flow toilet and then stuff them to the gills with Thanksgiving bounty? You get, of course, a calamitously clogged commode and enough tension to earn a spot on the Jerry Springer Show. T... More..
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Dude, Where's My Son?My son recently turned 13, and the last traces of that sweet little boy who thought I hung the moon seem to have vanished. In his place is a strange, slouching creature with a pencil-thin mustache and adolescent angst oozing from every pore. This extraterrestrial I once called flesh and blood, whose mood ... More..
- Creative Writing > Humor Humor: How I know it's Christmas
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Of Mice and MarthaEvery year about this time, I harvest a new crop of hope that's been watered by an abundance of denial. I envision a holiday season infused with peace, saturated with a spirit of thankfulness and goodwill. There will be no chaos this year, no crush of time bearing down on us like a frenetic freight train. Or... More..
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Days of DerangementI have teenagers living in my house. If you are at all familiar with this irrational and often irritating species (homo smartaleckus), you are offering me your condolences right now. You also know that these creatures are embarrassed by the very existence of their parents. This is a perfectly natural part o... More..
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