https://jasonfrye.com Blog posts, short stories, projects, and more from Jason Frye. en-us Sun, 04 Jan 2026 10:24:09 -0600 https://jasonfrye.com/posts/on-streaks https://jasonfrye.com/posts/on-streaks Sun, 04 Jan 2026 10:24:09 -0600 How far have you taken a streak? I’ve taken my Duolingo streak to 1167 days before quitting. I have a Bookly app streak that’s almost a year. I had several different streaks with my Apple Watch fitnes... https://jasonfrye.com/posts/reviewing-unreasonable-by-rivka-galchen https://jasonfrye.com/posts/reviewing-unreasonable-by-rivka-galchen Mon, 29 Dec 2025 08:34:17 -0600 Another review from my New Yorker backlog. It’s an exercise meant to build confidence and help me better my fiction writing. A quiet story centering around a scientist impacted by the consequential de... https://jasonfrye.com/posts/reacting-to-memory-palace-by-bianca-stone https://jasonfrye.com/posts/reacting-to-memory-palace-by-bianca-stone Sat, 27 Dec 2025 08:34:45 -0600 I’m blown away, all flecks and specks of flesh torn asunder by an absolute banger poem about someone else’s basement from their youth that somehow transforms into a very memorable metaphor for their l... https://jasonfrye.com/posts/reviewing-coconut-flan-by-catherine-lacy https://jasonfrye.com/posts/reviewing-coconut-flan-by-catherine-lacy Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:26:26 -0600 Thematically, “Coconut Flan” is a story galvanized around identity. Doria is in Guadalajara and has lost her passport. Queue panic and a trip to the consulate. But then we see Doria mirroring herself... https://jasonfrye.com/posts/reviewing-love-of-my-days-by-louise-erdrich https://jasonfrye.com/posts/reviewing-love-of-my-days-by-louise-erdrich Sat, 13 Dec 2025 08:32:36 -0600 Love of My Days is a western set around the time before telephones, as the opening of the story tells us, and communication plays a significant role in the events that unfold. Or, rather, the lack of... https://jasonfrye.com/posts/reviewing-safety-a-short-story-by-joan-silber https://jasonfrye.com/posts/reviewing-safety-a-short-story-by-joan-silber Sun, 07 Dec 2025 09:29:38 -0600 Logged story info: https://jasonfrye.com/short_story/safety/ This story by Joan Silber has a lot of present day themes. Here’s a quick plot summary. The story tracks two friends, both girls who grow u... https://jasonfrye.com/posts/review-of-beartooth-by-callan-wink https://jasonfrye.com/posts/review-of-beartooth-by-callan-wink Tue, 27 Aug 2024 08:55:41 -0500 ARC reviewThank you to NetGalley, Spiegel and Grau for the ARC of this book. It releases on February 11, 2025. Beartooth takes place in the mountains of the same name. The story tracks Thad and Hazen... https://jasonfrye.com/posts/review-of-the-believers-stories-by-a-k-herman https://jasonfrye.com/posts/review-of-the-believers-stories-by-a-k-herman Thu, 15 Aug 2024 09:38:06 -0500 ARC copyI received an ARC copy of this through NetGalley. Many thanks for the early review copy. The book will be available on October 22, 2024. The Believers is the first published collection from... https://jasonfrye.com/posts/so-i-built-a-time-machine https://jasonfrye.com/posts/so-i-built-a-time-machine Sun, 07 Jul 2024 09:24:58 -0500 I know what you're thinking, "No, you did not!" And you'd be right, but I did find a way to return to 2010 in spirit. In 2009 my daughter was born, but that's not what this is about. Around that time,... https://jasonfrye.com/posts/control https://jasonfrye.com/posts/control Sat, 06 Jul 2024 10:51:46 -0500 On the video, the creator talked in a muffled voice, so much so that she had trouble understanding the ingredient list. She spent a few minutes replaying it until Ray walked down the stairs. Then she... https://jasonfrye.com/posts/weekly-focus-week-one https://jasonfrye.com/posts/weekly-focus-week-one Sat, 16 Dec 2023 11:09:05 -0600 I thought it might be fun writing about the things that have taken my attention throughout the week. It won’t be an exhaustive list, but just the things others might find interesting themselves. What... https://jasonfrye.com/posts/eurotrip-2022-the-first-day-in-paris https://jasonfrye.com/posts/eurotrip-2022-the-first-day-in-paris Wed, 24 Aug 2022 15:25:46 -0500 We did it folks — we stepped out of our comfort zone and traveled to Europe. It was an amazing trip full of culture, good food, and great company. I thought it might be fun to revisit some days of the... https://jasonfrye.com/posts/when-will-the-slaughter-end https://jasonfrye.com/posts/when-will-the-slaughter-end Wed, 25 May 2022 12:10:20 -0500 How long ago was the Columbine shooting, I wonder as I hear about another shooter killing a dozen or more kids in a school. What have we become that we allow this to continue? I've spent the following... https://jasonfrye.com/posts/wp-global-styles-eleven40-pro https://jasonfrye.com/posts/wp-global-styles-eleven40-pro Wed, 25 May 2022 12:10:18 -0500 {"version": 2, "isGlobalStylesUserThemeJSON": true } https://jasonfrye.com/posts/a-man-called-ove-by-fredrik-backman https://jasonfrye.com/posts/a-man-called-ove-by-fredrik-backman Wed, 22 Sep 2021 08:49:28 -0500 I read the book Anxious People earlier in the year. After that I kept hearing about A Man Called Ove as Backman's best novel. The enjoyment I found in Anxious People came from the unique charac... https://jasonfrye.com/posts/saturday-night-movie-review-words-on-bathroom-walls https://jasonfrye.com/posts/saturday-night-movie-review-words-on-bathroom-walls Sun, 28 Mar 2021 19:12:31 -0500 Last night we watched a Prime movie entitled Words on Bathroom Walls. It's a story of a young man who gets diagnosed with schizophrenia (I'm not giving away the plot). It's all about the challenges of... https://jasonfrye.com/posts/leadership-meditation-1 https://jasonfrye.com/posts/leadership-meditation-1 Thu, 18 Feb 2021 20:15:00 -0600 I'm taking my meditations public. The first series comes with the topic of leadership. I'm not sure how many installments of this there will be. I'm writing what comes to mind, without a filter, to re... https://jasonfrye.com/posts/the-art-of-reading https://jasonfrye.com/posts/the-art-of-reading Sun, 14 Feb 2021 10:33:31 -0600 The other day I opened my Goodreads account and was a bit shocked by a number sitting there on my profile, 212 books read. How could that be possible? I'm 43 years old and have only read 212 books. T... https://jasonfrye.com/posts/living-through-a-pandemic https://jasonfrye.com/posts/living-through-a-pandemic Tue, 12 Jan 2021 16:34:01 -0600 I rarely thought much about viruses prior to COVID 19. SARS and Ebola were always flittering on the fringes, stories in my periphery, but never a focus. Then COVID happened. A worldwide pandemic that... https://jasonfrye.com/posts/black-lives-matter https://jasonfrye.com/posts/black-lives-matter Thu, 11 Jun 2020 13:51:29 -0500 They do. I'm posting this to document my experience learning about the movement and to help me understand the plight of the black community in America. I have personal experiences that I could share,...