Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

Don’t you hate it when a franchise is rolling along, full or one or two or even three great (or at least not terrible) movies, and then BANG. A bad movie enters the picture, and it completely ruins everything that came before – or that might come afterward – from then on. If you’re curious...

When someone asks us a question in every day life, I think most of us feel badly if we don’t know the answer – which is crazy, because no one knows everything about everything, right? Or even a little bit about some things, because we all have our specialities and areas of interest. A person...

You’ll hear people take issue these days with how people are “offended by everything” and we have to walk on eggshells so as not to “trigger” someone into being offended, and even though it’s obvious that there are a certain number of people who feel this way, I’m not sure how true it is. It...

Some people in this world have naturally green thumbs. The rest of us range somewhere between “can grow things if we really focus” and “kills everything, even the houseplants that are supposedly impossible to kill.” If you’re somewhere in that latter group but would like to change your murderous relationship with the plants in your...

If you’re an avid Disney fan – or even just someone who watches a lot of movies and pays attention to detail – it’s probably no secret that Disney’s animators recycle some of their animations into multiple subsequent films. If the only reason they do that is to save money, it turns out they save...

I used to think that there were probably nice, normal families out there without secrets, and without skeletons hiding in the closet. The older I get, though, the more I realize that’s not true – human beings are unpredictable, but if there’s one thing they’re consistently good at, it’s making decent sized messes of their...

The Office is a super popular television show because it’s hilarious, but listen – none of us would actually like to work in that office, right? Michael Scott is cringe enough to watch on television; can you even imagine having to deal with him in real life? I’m sure some of you have had similar experiences,...

We’ve all heard by now that Facebook isn’t exactly the safest place to share personal data. Those apps that masquerade as games are actually gathering data, Facebook is listening in to your conversations, and well…basically the app exists to gather data for third parties. If you’re worried that your settings need to be shored up...

Unless you’re a science fiction writer (or enthusiast), you probably don’t spend too much time thinking about what, exactly, humans might look like in the future. Most of us probably assume they’ll look and act a lot like we do now, since evolution takes millennia to really change anything, anyway. So, it’s probably going to...

There are all sorts of reactions to posts on the internet – righteous outrage, solidarity, social change – but for most of us, I think it’s a place we know we can go when we need to blow off some steam. You know, when we need a laugh. If you ask me, the best of...

I’m pretty sure that everyone has a closet (or closets), under the bed spaces, crowded garages, or basements that are full of stuff we forget we even owned. Me? I’ve got an ever-growing pile of “garage sale” items that will probably never get sold because that would involve me having to prepare for, advertise for,...

For some people, the world and morality are black and white. Things are wrong or not, moral or not, and there’s no wiggle room or space to negotiate in the middle. For other people, the world is more gray, and whether or not something is wrong can depend on who you’re dealing with, and maybe...

They say that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure – in fact, that’s really what the entire concept of garage sales is based on – but most of us can count on one hand (or one finger or less) how many times we’ve unearthed literal treasures in our neighbor’s garage. Sometimes, though, people just...

We all know that it’s easier to see the problems in a relationship from outside of it – our friends and family usually know before we do whether or not our current love interest seems like the one or not. That said, things have to be pretty obviously wrong for the people who live in...

When people are down and out, depressed, lost, or otherwise searching for answers, that can make them vulnerable to others who prey on folks like that, looking to earn a few bucks off their uncertainty and doubt. And while some people find life coaches helpful or even call them lifesavers, from the outside, the industry...