Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

As someone who has met her fair share of celebrities in her day, I have to say, the whole business gives me anxiety – at least, it does when I’m expecting to meet someone whose work I enjoy. If they’re rude, it might be harder for me to watch them in the future, even though...

In my experience, meeting a celebrity can go one of three ways. First, they could be a total d%ck and you can never watch anything they do ever again. Second, they can be perfunctory and polite but not wow you in any way. Third, they can be unexpectedly delightful and earn another avid fan for...

If I had to pick a favorite type of meme it would be a history meme – they’re jokes anyone who loves history can get and laugh at, and it’s always amusing to poke fun at our ancestors because they can’t yell at us now, right? If you’re a history teacher, all of these memes...

All teachers need a break now and then – some other form of media to teach your class for a day or an hour so you can just zone out and deal with your own crap. Or just not deal with their crap, I suppose. If you’re a history teacher, tuck these 19 memes away for a...

The world has always been changing, but it does seem like, over the past several decades, it’s changing faster than ever. From medical to technology advances, the world today is nearly unrecognizable from what it was just thirty or forty years ago – in the space of a single generation. People are always concerned about...

Where are my fellow word nerds at? I suppose if you clicked on this post, you’re right here – which is exactly where you should be if you’re excited to learn more about those five special letters in the English alphabet. Vowels as essential to building words in English, and if you think the only important...

People have never been able to get enough of NASA‘s space explorations. We don’t understand how any of it works, we have no idea what’s out there, but something in our adventurous human spirit constantly has our eyes trained on the heavens, and we want to know. NASA’s technology, of course, has only gotten better, and...

I don’t know about you, but I love a good romantic comedy. There’s something so familiar and comforting about the formula, and the promise that there’s going to be a happy ending. That’s the way we like it – some endearing characters, a fun setup, some laughs, and then the payoff we’ve all been craving...

The past year has seen many of us pick up new responsibilities around the house, most of which none of us asked for or wanted. You might not realize this goes for teenaged kids, too, who are certainly old enough to pitch in, but who are also still just children at the end of the...

Relationships can be tricky to navigate for everyone, but when it comes to family, well – complicated sometimes doesn’t seem to cover it. We want to be gracious and loving, but sometimes people ask us to do that at the expense of our own comfort, so…what then? This woman and her boyfriend are super into...

Sometimes, whether or not to stay home with children is an easy decision. It could be that one of the parents wants to stay home, to manage the household and the children, while the other party works for a paycheck outside the home. It could be that both parents have always worked, and they can’t really...

If you’re someone you likes to watch television, chances are you’ve been burned by television execs a time or two. They really don’t care how great a show is if not enough people are tuning in, so not enough advertising dollars are being paid, you know? The cold, hard facts of Hollywood as a business...

As someone who came of age during the 1990s, I can tell you that they were a crazy – but totally awesome – time to be alive. The internet was like, barely a thing and cell phones were things our parents had and lent to us when we went out for actual emergencies. Fashion was...

Marriage is complicated. If there is one single truth about life and relationships that everyone can agree on, that must be it. It’s tough to not only love someone through decades of ups and downs and life changes, but to put up with sharing the same space with them all that time, too. This woman...

When people go looking for advice about life, most of the time we go to the older, wiser people we know in our personal lives, or maybe to public figures we’ve always admired and consider to have wisdom to impart. Maybe the internet, with its random strangers and mixed bag of tricks, isn’t your first...