Category: Reflections

Sunset in Sachsenhausen

I had not heard of Sachsenhausen before my trip to Berlin. Located in Oranienburg, just outside the city, it was the first iteration of Nazi design—the early concentration camp was shaped as a triangle to enable the guards to have … Read More

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Mommy Says

Once a month, my mother would choose a single-parenting experience she thought to be humorous or poignant and would write it down for the whole world to read (or at least the subscribers of North Texas). My mother didn’t just archive my brother’s and my childhood, she created public records of all our most embarrassing moments.

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A Fall from Grace

“That night, for the first time, I tried to fall asleep without praying. My room was completely silent; it was a strangely feeble, prickling silence, as if a wound were healing.”

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Confessions IX

Am I handsome? There are days when my face is clear and my hair all in place and I believe that I am very comely, and there are days when I am unduly scruffy and pimpled and I despise my own reflection. I

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WIll My Eyes Be Closed or Open?

Ordinary, suicidal thoughts in Emerson and Bjork’s “Hyperballad”.

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The BMW Dealership of Benares

“There is a BMW dealership in Benares now,” I tell a friend over Skype, “just outside the airport.”

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Telescoping Sleep

In the succeeding entries, we telescope our sleepy selves.

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Moments of Dreams: Dawes in Six Albums and Seven Stories

“In my moments of dogged hope, I would play “Moon in the Water,” an acoustic ballad where Goldsmith proclaims that ‘Love is for the fighter / Born to lose but never quit / Swinging for the moon in the water.’”

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Rebuilding

After the flood, a reflection on a healing state.

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On The Women We (Don’t) Read: A Reflection on Academia

A writer analyzes the number of women authors she has been assigned throughout her time at Princeton.

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The CD Case of Alexandria

Wherein a Nass writer reflects on lost DVDs as artifacts of a past life.

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The Opera Singer

The story of a birth, and a basket of cheese fries

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