Nassau Weekly
  • Issues
  • Verbatim
  • Crosswords
  • About
  • Donate

Byline: Catalina Trigo

  • New
  • Old
  • Random

Tales of a Non-Jewish Chabadnik

“Come to Chabad for dinner with me and Hannie tonight!” It’s early in October when my roommate, Molly, makes the invitation. In my ignorance, I thought she was just pronouncing “Shabbat” differently and that we’d be going to the CJL for dinner.

by Catalina Trigo on March 30, 2014April 18, 2014

Eyes on the Skies

To telescope is to slide concentric components within themselves, to shrink sequentially, to densen. It is also a means of interstellar discovery, of flooding, of applying pressure. In the succeeding entries, we telescope the weather by precipitating and saturating our memories. Each succeeding memory of a series is composed in exactly half the number of words of the previous. Condense with us.

by Angela Cafferty, Catalina Trigo, Dayton Martindale, Margaret Spencer, Rachel Stone, Sophie Parker-Rees, Zahava Presser on March 1, 2014March 8, 2014

Maria Catalina Trigo

Not Tri- as in triangle or tricycle, but Tri- as in Tree. Tree as in that family tree project I made in the third grade, still a novice to glue that came in sticks instead of bottles. The tree whose oldest branches spread far back to Spain, and in some cases, to Italy or France. The tree from which later branches grew in Argentina, a place where many branches still remain. Until, this newest, fledgling branch ended up on new American soil, taking up roots as it keeps trying to grow.

by Catalina Trigo on February 22, 2014July 21, 2017

Mother Tongue

My ears picked up on it the moment I walked through the entryway. As I walked up the staircase to the lecture hall, I could clearly make out sentences of the conversation being had behind me. It felt out of place to me, belonging to a different time and place.

by Catalina Trigo on November 7, 2013November 10, 2013

Strangers

How do great friendships form, exactly? Sometime between laughing hysterically at a joke about lizard sex and walking home together as the sun goes up. Sometime after you make an embarrassing purchase together at 7-Eleven. Sometime after you share a near-death experience. Somewhere down the line when your texts to each other loose all grammatical correctness and you start addressing each other solely with either pet names or crude profanities.

by Catalina Trigo on October 12, 2013October 11, 2013


Submit a Verbatim

    Recent Posts

    • Fun Fact: Rocky/Mathey Trivia is Downright Cutthroat
    • PRINCETON WINS!: Full Design
    • From Sleepers to Sweepers: Princeton Curling’s Unlikely Redemption Arc
    • Au
    • On Lemons

    Popular Posts

    • 127 Unclaimed Rap Names
    • Fun Fact: Rocky/Mathey Trivia is Downright Cutthroat
    • PRINCETON WINS!: Full Design
    • The Journey from Pornhub to OnlyFans… And Why it Matters
    • From Sleepers to Sweepers: Princeton Curling’s Unlikely Redemption Arc

    Navigation

    • Home
    • Articles
    • Issues
    • Verbatim
    • Contact
    • Donate

    Categories

    • Campus
    • Reflections
    • Poetry
    • Podcasts
    • Fiction
    • Lists

    Join Us

    • About
    • Privacy Policy
    • Submit an article
    • Submit a verbatim

    © Nassau Weekly 2020 · All Rights Reserved