Fran Mason, Author at TueNight.com

Fran Mason

Fran Mason graduated from Columbia College Chicago where she studied fiction writing and art. She has worked as a copy editor, helpdesk technician, technical writer, CrossFit trainer, and gym owner. She now teaches strength training in her garage, mostly to women over 50, and is writing a memoir of growing up motherless in Chicago in the 1970s. She lives in Seattle with her husband, who endorses all of her bright ideas.

Stories

‘Be Yourself, But Bigger’: How Owning a Gym Made Me an Extrovert

By Fran Mason

We’d just come from my gym’s seventh holiday party, hosted by a couple of our clients at their big house on the hill. Everyone relished the chance to be together… Read More

Obsessed

Tumbling Blocks Needlepoint

By Fran Mason

Everybody in my mother’s family is an amateur artisan. We have quilters, decorators, huck-weavers, furniture restorers, and more — but the arts-and-crafts gene passed me by.

Memoir

I Learned Everything I Know from Harriet the Spy

By Fran Mason

Brick houses, courtyard apartments with trees and dirt in the yards, alleys, little grocery stores and bickering neighbors: This was my world, and it was Harriet the Spy’s world, too…. Read More