Category: Reflections

No Shrinking Violets

A recap of Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan’s visits to the orange bubble.

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Monochrome in Orange

A palette with only one color can paint a remarkable number of portraits.

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I Lied About Having A Bar Mitzvah

You might be left psychoanalyzing this one for years to come.

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With Precious Memories of Howard Friedman

A eulogy to an artist, a father, a husband and a man whose memories live on with his family.

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Impressions of Istanbul

A country in flux; coffee shared over small, wooden tables and fortune telling.

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Gibraltar, an odd dream

For one last time during my two-month stay in Spain, I arrived at the Estepona bus station and sat on the metal bench outside with holes that always leave a circle mark on the back of my thighs. As I … Read More

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Best Buddies

What separates us is nothing more than a bunk-bed ladder.

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Labor Day

Put me to sleep when September starts. Also, fold my white linen carefully, please.

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Devil Wind

“Think surfing. What comes to mind? White beaches and tropical blue waters, perhaps. Laidback beach bums with long, sun-bleached hair. California, Hawaii, the South Pacific. You probably do not think of snowbanks and dark, churning, sub-forty-degree water. Pale, shivering guys in head-to-toe neoprene and with accents harsh as the weather. You almost certainly do not think of New Jersey.”

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Ghosts of Berggasse 19

“You are buzzed in after a moment, as if you are entering a doctor’s office, as if you are a patient, as if the Freud, whose eyes stare out from the tiers of brochures in the museum’s front room, will tell you in due time what your dreams mean.”

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MONOLOGUES

“Zach Feig ’18 is organizing a staged reading of monologues, submitted anonymously by students at Princeton, about their struggles with eating, eating disorders, nutrition, weight loss, weight gain, and dieting. The project’s goal is to generate conversation and community around maintaining a healthy relationship with food. The Nassau Weekly has worked with Zach to showcase a small collection of these monologues, printed here, with a similar aspiration.”

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Just a Pain in the Ass

“Granny Annie had devoted her life to others in a manner that was awe-inspiring. Even winds upward of 100 miles per hour and torrential rain could not stymie her optimistic spirit, the hope that coursed through her family’s veins.”

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