Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

Do you have friends who are night owls to your early bird? Are you up at odd hours for one reason or another and don’t think before firing off a text or sharing a video with a friend who might be asleep? In our global culture, I’m willing to be this happens more often then...

You know that thing where people think that, because of your job, you have this wide breadth of knowledge that they should be able to tap into whenever they need? I think it happens in many professions, but probably is super prevalent when it comes to computers and software – because we all deal with...

Anyone who has ever been through a bad breakup knows that functioning in the hours and days immediately afterward can be rough. You’re thinking about other things, probably going through those first stages of grief, and suddenly forced to imagine a future you hadn’t considered. And yet, unlike a death or some other major life...

In an ideal world, every single kid who wants to go to college would have help paying for school, be it from family members or the government or the school they plan to attend. In reality, there are lots and lots of students who have to figure out how to make financing an education work...

We hear a lot these days about climate change and global warming, and about how we all need to do our part to turn this ship around before it’s too late for our kids and grandkids to even survive in some semblance of what we’ve enjoyed. That said, if you do some reading and get...

What are we really talking about when we discuss income equality within society? Does that really mean that it doesn’t matter how much money we all make as long as it’s the same? All poor is the same as all comfortable, or all well off? This person is wondering whether or not a baseline “good”...

I think the United States is coming to a real reckoning over the way that, for the past four or five decades, we have pushed college degrees on every single person who matriculates from high school. Even as the internet has broadened what’s possible as far as potential careers and sources of income, high school...

Human beings love a good mystery. We love to put on our detective caps, to act like we know how to solve a crime, or that we would have seen it coming, and most of us can guess who the bad guy is before it’s revealed to us by the narrator of the show. In...

If you’re like me, you can’t get enough of the “murder shows” on television, or the murder podcasts that proliferate online. There’s something fascinating about a mystery, but I don’t know…if they haven’t been solved yet, it’s a bit unsatisfying. That’s not so with these 13 mysteries, because we know exactly whodunnit – so if...

There’s no doubt that people love a good bit of murder and mystery. True crime shows are more popular than ever, and the revival of Unsolved Mysteries on Netflix, along with a bunch of open-ended podcasts, have grabbed the public’s attention and held on. That said, sometimes it’s nice to know that the mystery has been...

Have you ever had that feeling where you just need to get something off your chest, but for one reason or another, saying it face to face seems to be too daunting a task? Whether it’s that writing it down gives you more time to sort your thoughts or taking the time offers you the...

There are some jobs that we like to think are more calling and duty than a paycheck, and policing is definitely one of them. Every profession has its tough days, though, no matter how much you love your work, and even those of us who would give every last drop to the job have days...

Here’s something that’s sad but true – if you get to live a few years, you’ll have more than one memory of a time when you were really and truly scared. That’s just life, my friends, and we all learn how to cope with it in our own ways. If one of the ways you cope...

Some people say that the scariest stories are always the ones that are true, but I don’t know…maybe those people just haven’t read a really good book? Because I’ve read some tales that definitely spooked me well! That said, some of the stories below are true, others are not, so you can decide for yourself...

There are people who love creepy stuff, no matter what form it takes or how they can get that knowledge into their brains. We watch creepy television shows, we read weird books, and we can’t get enough of those true crime podcasts that seem to crawl out of the woodwork on a regular basis. If...