Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

I’ve often wondered whether or not people who are asked to and agree to sign a NDA before taking or keeping a job ever regret it. Like…do they find out things they can’t forget? Things they wish they didn’t know? Or, like me, do they just realized that they’re terrible at keeping secrets when they’ve...

If you ask this girl, there are way too many things in the books and movies that are made out to be romantic but are decidedly not at all. Most of them we can let slide, because everyone deserves their weird fantasies and whatever, but when those norms start to slide into reality, maybe it’s...

Discipline is a hot-button topic among parents, caregivers, and child-development experts everywhere these days. Everyone has an opinion, everyone is sure that they’re right, and yes, there can sometimes be warfare in a Target as a result. This old-school thinker has taken to Reddit to suggest that parents aren’t disciplining their kids at all, and...

There’s pretty much a consensus that the current 24/7 news cycle really isn’t doing anyone any good. We can relay the actual news of the day in the regularly scheduled hours – morning, noon, and evening, so everything that goes in between is just fluff designed to whip people into a frenzy. This Redditor thinks...

We all know – even if we don’t want to or pretend not to – that pirating things like movies, books, and video games is harmful to the artists who create them. You’re taking money out of their pockets and food out of their mouths and all of that. What if a license has expired,...

Listen, I honestly believe that anyone who would argue that people don’t legitimately grieve the loss of a beloved family pet either a) has never had and lost such a pet or b) is some kind of sociopath. That said, the majority of employers and people who make decisions about company leave don’t go in...

Back in the day, we all had to take a “home economics” class and also a shop class of some sort that felt like you were an inch away from losing a finger most days. I don’t remember these things being optional, at least not the first ones, and I have to say, I have...

There are tons of things we wish we could ask the opposite sex, but sometimes, we don’t – often because we don’t feel like, for one reason or another, we’ll really get a straight answer. That’s what the internet is for, though, because what’s the harm in answering honestly if neither party knows each other...

Everyone’s marriage is different. Honestly, if you’re married for any length of time your own marriage will be different from one year, one decade, one season of life to the next. The one constant is that if you want things to last, you have to be willing to be flexible, to try different things, and...

You might think that, since you know the Vanderbilt name and it’s even on a big, prestigious university and everything, that they must have gone out of this world with more money than they entered it with…but you would be wrong. If you love sordid tales of America’s past, buckle up – because the story...

If you ask me, Reddit’s “No Stupid Question” forum is just one of the best things – if you’re looking to muse on something you’ve genuinely never thought about before, of if you’ve got your own inane but burning question, now you have somewhere to go – and I think that’s great. This guy is...

If you were born hearing, you might not have spent a lot of time wondering if things sounded the way you expect them to sound. We don’t consider it! That said, people who have spent their lives not hearing, or not hearing well, have no choice but to just imagine how things will sound –...

Teaching is a career that’s extremely rewarding, and also one that can break your heart – and sometimes it’s the same student who gives you both experiences in one. These teachers thought they knew what they were doing or how to handle their classrooms, but these 15 students can along and showed them a better...

If you’ve been paying attention to the world lately, you know it can be hard to know where to look. There’s so much going on all of the time that we get fatigued, and I think it seems easier to just write people off entirely than to deal with a continuing conversation. This Redditor thinks...

There are jokes that make you think, jokes that require intelligence to understand, and jokes that are actually sort of poignant when you get to the punchline..but these 18 jokes are none of those. These are the ones that are so stupid you laugh while you’re shaking your head, and laughing at all makes you...