About: Jackie Papandrew
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- Bio
- Jackie Papandrew is an award-winning writer and editor with experience in technical writing and corporate communications, in addition to her humor column. Jackie's humor writing has been featured in books such as Misadventures of Moms and Disasters of Dads and the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, as well as in newspapers such as The Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Tampa Tribune and The Oklahoman. She has won awards from American Business Media (including a prestigious Neal Award), Oklahoma Press Association, Parenting Publications of America, America's Funniest Humor Press and the Florida Freelance Writers Association. Jackie is a member of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists.
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Holiday of the Heart
Posted on 11. Feb, 2008 by Jackie Papandrew.
Now that football season is finally over (YEAH! Oops, did I say that out loud?), it is time for American men to focus on something far more important. It’s almost Valentine’s Day, fellas – surprisingly, it is falling on February 14th this year, just kind of snuck up on you, didn’t it? If you have [...]
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The Loose End
Posted on 04. Feb, 2008 by Jackie Papandrew.
To celebrate the end of football season, I’ve posted something I wrote back at the beginning of yet another season of insanity…
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead. — Erma Bombeck
By some strange twist of fate, I’ve brought forth a football fanatic. My son is one [...]
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Cruise Control
Posted on 23. Jan, 2008 by Jackie Papandrew.
If the Good Lord had wanted us to eat sensibly this time of year, he wouldn’t have invented the cruise ship. It must have been divine compulsion that drove my family and a couple thousand of our closest friends to set sail recently on an after-Christmas cruise in the Caribbean. It’s not that we wanted [...]
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LBD Conspiracy
Posted on 17. Dec, 2007 by Jackie Papandrew.
It’s funny how one’s self-image tends to stay frozen in time. Your mind picks out a moment when you looked your best, sometimes a moment that occurred many moons (and many pounds) ago, and it goes through some kind of freezing process that crystallizes this warm memory into a mental ice cube tray where you [...]
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‘Tis A Few Weeks ‘Til Christmas
Posted on 09. Dec, 2007 by Jackie Papandrew.
‘Tis a few weeks ’til Christmas and all through my house
Not a gift has been bought, and I’m feeling like a louse.
The dog chewed up the stockings I left in her reach without care
And I’m hoping St. Nicholas will soon take her with him in the air.
My consumers, er, children, nestle each night snug [...]
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Of Mice and Martha
Posted on 26. Nov, 2007 by Jackie Papandrew.
Every 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 [...]
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Plunging into Thanksgiving
Posted on 16. Nov, 2007 by Jackie Papandrew.
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 [...]