Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

Every once in a while we hear stories like this. Tales of children who are far ahead of their peers and never look back – and while characters like Sheldon Cooper (Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon) can shed some light on what it’s like to be and know prodigies, it’s more interest (I think!) to...

Often, well-known actors or actresses take voice work, where they give a voice to an animate character. Because we already know their voices – the tone, inflection, mannerisms – it’s impossible not to know who is performing the animated words. When an actress isn’t as well known, though, it can be a shock to learn...

I’m pretty sure the answer to this question has a lot to do with individual personalities and our aversion to risk. For some of us, breaking rules makes us break out in hives but for others, it’s a thrill. So, when you’re sitting at an intersection and the red light doesn’t change, and doesn’t change,...

It takes a ton of courage to admit to yourself (and your insurance company) that you would benefit from talking to a therapist, and it takes even more courage than that to walk into someone’s office and let them into your life, your mind, and your past. Which is why is must feel like an...

You would think that marriage proposals would be as unique as the people making and receiving them, but in the past couple of decades it seems to have become some kind of grand gesture, one-up your friends competition to see who can do it up the biggest – and often the most public. This person...

Even if you’re someone who loves your hairdresser, who maybe even calls them a friend, there’s a good chance you’ve been uncomfortable in that chair a time or two. It’s an odd relationship, or power dynamic, or something. If you’re wondering if you do something that’s weird or wrong under the cape, these 16 hairdressers...

I don’t know a single person in the world who hasn’t been uncomfortable at a hair salon. It’s a strange power dynamic, they’re in charge of your looks, and you’re never quite sure what you should talk about for all of those endless minutes. If you’ve ever wondered if you’re doing the right thing or...

The first step to understanding is knowledge, I think, and that’s one reason why, if you’ve never been poor, it’s important to listen to what it’s really like from people who have been there. When you live in a world without certainty, there’s more to it than constantly worrying about money. Here are 17 other...

If you didn’t grow up poor, there’s no way to ever really know what it’s like. If you did grow up poor, then it’s almost like you’re part of a club. Everyone understands you, and if you’re part of it, you also understand these 16 social norms that go beyond the average attempts to always...

Most of us like to think that we know our rights when it comes to police investigations and the like. We know we don’t have to talk without a lawyer, and we know that we can refuse things like searching our vehicles and breathalyzers in the field. Do you know what happens after you assert your...

Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” To me, this means that no matter what life throws at you, you have to remember that the future is where...

There are all kinds of reality television shows out there – something for everyone, and most of us have at least one guilty pleasure. Why not, then, have a show where rich people tried to live on what’s being proposed as a minimum wage? It’s bound to be funny, and you never know – they...

For many people, the body positive movement has been a godsend. For too long, society in general – and some professions, like the medical field, specifically – have made it really, really hard to be happy living as someone perceived as being “overweight.” This questioner wants to know why we’re more focused on making fat...

There is actually no shortage of scientific facts that creep me the heck out – the natural world is full of endless weirdness that can really unsettle a person when you stop and think about it for too long. If that seems like something you’d be into today, have we got a list for you...

I know that this is the day and age of the cell phone, so maybe people think it’s not as important to always be prepared as it once was. That said, the Gen Xer in me thinks that you could have to improvise, still – your phone could be dead, the people you call might...