
“I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.”
Flannery O’Connor
Flannery O’Connor
My name is Francie Arenson Dickman and I’m a writer. At first, I wrote in journals to entertain myself. Then I wrote letters to friends, old-fashioned pen and paper letters, to entertain them. Now I write essays and novels to entertain you. Spend a few minutes in my world and maybe you’ll forget about your own…or even better, maybe my world will remind you of your own, and you’ll relate. No matter what, I hope you laugh.
“As if, at 17, kids can know who they are. Or what they’ll be. Or why they want to go to college, let alone a certain college, beyond the legit reasons that they can’t articulate as part of the “Why” essay, like: I visited and had a great time or my parents went there or they have a great football team.
As if the line from where one goes to college to where she hopes to end up is a guaranteed trajectory. As if our 17-year-old selves could have imagined that one day, on the doorstep of fifty, the line between living the dream and just living would become so fine.”[read article in Motherwell Magazine]
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