Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

When we go to dinner with family or friends, we often decide to split the bills down the middle in order to make things fair, or at least to help avoid that always-awkward argument about who’s paying this time around. It turns out that’s not always the best way to do things, not if you’re...

We go about our business every day assuming that the people around us are working at a decent level of intelligence. One that allows us to interact and understand each other, to work together toward forming a society, etc. It always comes as a bit of shock, then, when someone you thought was moderately intelligence...

Butterflies are one of those things that totally enchant you as a child, and honestly, not much changes as we age. There’s something mysterious and magical about these creatures that begin their lives as wormlike caterpillars and emerge, weeks later, as beautiful butterflies that just captures us – and let’s be honest, it’s not a...

I love when people think outside the box, or get weird notions and go after them down the rabbit hole. It’s like fan fiction but shorter form, and people on the internet love to jump on a question like “think about Batman’s totally normal son, probably named Brad or something.” Brad wasn’t raised with the...

People who serve in the United States military, reserves or otherwise, know that they have the full legal force of that military at their backs, and therefore are typically confident when dealing with civilian managers, etc. Civilian managers typically realize what they’re working with, too, but listen. Sometimes our egos really do get the better...

One of the hardest and scariest things we do as parents is leave our kids with people who are essentially strangers. Sure, we can get references and sure, our kids can give us their feedback (if they’re old enough), but even though hiring babysitters is a part of life for most of us, the truth...

As an American, I can admit that the Brits are like, the wannabe OG Americans and Aussies. They are the OG white Americans and Aussies, I suppose, and as with every parent-child relationship, there are bound to be some spats among family members. Luckily there’s also a lot of love in families, so these 17 salty conversations...

I don’t know about y’all, but I love charts. And graphs, and pie charts, and really any pretty configuration of interesting facts. You can literally make one using any information you’d like, and somehow once it’s all colored and arranged, you want to know what it says. At least, I hope that’s how you feel, because...

There are about a million questions that pop into my mind just from the title of this post in Reddit’s Am I the A$$hole thread, but as usual, we have to let OP (original poster) have their entire say before we’re allowed to render judgement. Will this be a case of “knew it from the...

At some point in our lives, the majority of us will be forced to hunt for a job. It’s tedious, it’s time-consuming, and it’s often heartbreaking, to continue sending hope out into the world and get nothing but radio silence – or a chorus of “no thanks” back in return. In this day and age,...

Transformers have been around since the 1980s, which could be one of the reasons there are still television shows and movies and toys are still big business today. All of us 80s babies are now grown up, and many of us are parents, so we’re happy (thrilled) to share our love of everything Transformers with...

If you’re someone who enjoys stopping at a coffee shop on a regular basis – be it a Starbucks, another chain, or a local favorite – and you’re not the person with the crazy order, you’ve probably been stuck in line between your fair share of high maintenance customers. I’m sure you can imagine that, for...

When you hear the term “gossip,” or “gossiping,” there’s a good chance it’s said in a pejorative tone, or you have an immediately negative connotation in your mind. What if I told you, though, that it used to be something totally different, and that men throughout recent history have demonized the practice for very specific...

Every server hears stories about those anonymous, wealthy patrons who also realize the value of the hard work that most servers put in day in and day out and leave them an astronomical, life-changing tip. It happens, we know, but it’s hard to believe it could ever happen to us. I would suspect that goes double...

It’s easy to find horror stories about people who have met celebrities and then been totally disappointed at how they acted or how they were treated. We talk less, I think, about all of the times they met famous people who were charming, kind, and delightful – but surely those encounters happen, too. Proof? These...