Cottage cheese & tinned fish fangirl: I’m trying to eat more elderly people foods.
Overheard in Zumba
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Only Fans – Full Design
This week, the Nass ponders anxiety, cuts rocks, and gets really into chess.
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On the Shore of the Amygdala
“It’s not the calm before the storm, but the cohabitation of serenity and calamity. It captures the future’s grasp on the present; anxiety is in the very air.”
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Zaide’s Office, Embodied
“I wondered what kind of philosopher he might have been, having known him only after his thinking and memory had become impaired.”
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First, Nothing
“Let yourself age. Let time press through your skeleton like water, dribbling through your pores, let it sing right through your bones…”
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Happy Birthday, Ronald Reagan
“His favorite food was jellybeans because they helped him fend off the desire to smoke. We eat none and smoke none, and congratulate ourselves.”
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How a Rock Is Cut
“So long as nothing blocks your persistence, / you arrive one day at solution caves and gaping gullies.”
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Lights, Camera…Checkmate
A Nass writer considers Netflix’s miniseries The Queen’s Gambit.
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The Night Before the Semester After – Full Design
This week, the Nass previews the new art museum, visits nearby nature, and ruminates on the mysteries of love.
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Envisioning a New Museum for Princeton
Where a Nass writer considers how a new art museum might reconsider values of equity and inclusion.
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Nass Recommends Local Nature Preserves
Where a Nass writer urges us to explore the nearby natural world.
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The Story about a War and Some Other Things
“Anyway, I’ve heard stories are supposed to have morals. I don’t know if this is much of a story, really, but I’ll give it a moral anyhow.”
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Oeuvre Reviews: Joshua Malina in Sports Night
“It was a chilling fragment of the 20th century hiding under the innocent guise of a sitcom, leaving me shaking in my little Gen-Z boots.”
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“That Tender Infinity” : Or, Fifteen Vignettes on Love
“When I saw him again for the first time in nearly thirteen months, we chatted as though no time at all had passed, as though we were still standing there, waiting for the train to arrive.”