An Amazing Book

A Year-by-Year Guide to the Different Generations By  Sarah Cottrell Sarah Cottrell Sarah Cottrell is a writer and editor from mid-coast Maine. When she isn’t working on trending news stories or researching pieces for Parents, Sarah is working on creative, fictional writing pursuits. OUR EDITORIAL GUIDELINES Updated on June 22, 2026  Fact checked by  Karen […]

Early Hours at Staufs in Grandview …

(Staufs Circa 2008 – Photo by John Fraim) Miles Davis / In a Silent Way ____________________ Stauf’s Coffee Roasters coffee shop in the Columbus suburb of Grandview. The strong smell of strong coffee. Conversations at tables. At others, students from OSU typing things into their laptops. A squeaky wooden floor. Outside, the middle of a […]

The Crew

There were severe thunderstorms all over Columbus before the 7:30 pm game tonight. But somehow, they were all gone when the game started. My first visit to ScottsMiracle-Gro Field in downtown Columbus to see the Columbus Crew. Beautiful stadium. The Crew was playing Pumas from the Mexican soccer league so it was really an international […]

Towards a new type of narrative?

Early Morning Ohio Countryside in Winter / Yost & Fraim John Fraim Using discovered own contents of photo images on my MacBook Air as my personal database of photos to draw from. This includes video clips, music and photos as well as voices filmed in live action or by VO.  For years, I’ve studied and […]

The Wind Spirit

In New Albany, a waving tall figure blows on a windy day. The kind they have at new home development openings or car dealerships. Here, it is set up for an event in New Albany that looks to have a storm coming. The figure dissolves into clouds going over our home. Turned the clouds upside […]

New Albany

Maybe it’s a good time to do a little reflection about where I’ve been for the past ten years. We’ve been living in New Albany, Ohio. We moved here from Palm Desert, California. Recently, we bought a home in Ft. Collins, Colorado where we’ve been visiting for a number of years. It seems we don’t […]