Personal essay · Art & culture
The Tree That
Stayed With Me
On moving, growing up, and finding a place for our questions among the branches of Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree.
Read the storyA writer. A question asker. Still becoming.
Growing up.
Looking closer.
Writing it down.
Life, girls, brains, and the world in between. Essays and observations from someone still figuring it out.
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Growing pains✳Shared humanity✳Everyday wonder✳Unfinished thoughts
The latest words
Selected writing / 01The Tree That
Close to home / Beacon Park
Where I find
my words.
Beacon Park is one of the places I find inspiration to write—a space to slow down, notice the everyday, and let an idea take shape.
Conversations at Beacon Park
An interview series in the making. A place for questions, listening, and getting to know the people around us.
In development
From the notebook
Ideas taking shape
Places & perspective
Learning to look again
A future field note on familiar places, new beginnings, and paying attention.
Coming soon
The writing life
Room for unfinished thoughts
A space for the questions and fragments that haven’t quite become essays yet.
Coming soon
Behind the words
Hi, I’m Frances.
I write about life and girls and brains. About growing up, finding a place, and asking questions that don’t come with tidy answers.
I’m interested in the moments that make us feel a little more understood—and the words we leave for someone else to find.
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One story at a time
Still curious.
Still becoming.