“I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.”
Flannery O’Connor
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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.
Recent Publications
Gen-X Moms, It’s Time to Rise Up!
“Yes indeed, my generation has had a relatively peaceful run—which may be why Donald Trump got elected in the first place. We’ve never had any real experience with a domestic enemy and so we were slow on the uptake to recognize and organize. Just one more thing, I suppose, my daughters will—when they are heading to class with air masks over their mouths or cross country for an abortion—blame their mother for one day. “While she was worrying about a crazy man abducting us on the way home from school,” they’ll say, “a crazy man up and stole the entire democracy.”[read article in Motherwell Magazine]
Latest on the Blog
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
“You didn’t call.”
“I’m sorry,” I said. I felt bad, like I was talking to a boy in high school rather than the owner
of my daughters’ overnight camp. We were standing at the buses. I’d walked over to Gabe to say hello, as I always do. But unlike the previous five years, our arrival this year[read]
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I’m excited to share my performance as part of the Chicago cast of Listen to Your Mother 2016! Enjoy my video below. Enjoy the entire show at: http://listentoyourmothershow.com/chicago/