Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

This is one of those Am I The A$shole posts that starts to boil your blood after you read the title, but based on experience, those can go one of two ways. You can either realize that not only were you right, but they’re even worse than the title suggested OR you can realize there’s...

If you’re not part of the 1% of the world that holds most of its wealth, then the habits and lives of rich people are probably a bit of a mystery to you. If you’re curious, though, here are 5 rich people willing to talk about what life looks like from the other side. 5....

There are plenty of rich people who were born into money, but there are others who have worked and scraped their own way to the top. Regardless of what sort of rich person you’re dealing with, there are some things they’ll never say – and below are 6 items you’ll never hear. 6. “I have...

Weird things happen to everyone, right? It feels like fate, or kismet, or destiny, or just dumb luck, but if we sit and look at what happened with a calm and critical eye, we can usually figure out what exactly happened. Most of the time, maybe, but not in cases like these 12 – when...

Weird things happen to people all of the time. That said, about 99% of those events can, with enough consideration and time and space, be explained by logic and common sense. The 1% of the time they can’t are where the fears of the paranormal, of roaming ghosts, of invisible hands, and other things that...

If you’re lucky enough to live a decent amount of time, weird things are definitely going to happen to you. Some will seem strange in passing, some will linger in your mind, but usually, after a while and some thought, you can explain it, at least to satisfy yourself. There are, though, odd things that...

I think it’s fair to say that every family does the holidays differently. You might do Santa up big, or play him down (or ignore him totally). Everyone might buy each other all of the gifts they can afford, or you might draw names from a hat to keep things less expensive (but still loving)....

One of my favorite things about people is how unique we all are, with our own strange interests that turn into really fascinating and beautiful things (sometimes). We walk through our lives, gathering the things that bring us joy, and keeping them to look at on rainy days – in reality or just in our...

People everywhere seem to enjoy collecting things. Things that are small and innocuous, like paper clips, and other things that are harder to find and store, like vintage record players. Anything you think of, there’s probably someone out there with a collection of it. Even so, I didn’t really expect to find pictures of people...

I’m not sure what the psychology is behind why human beings love to collect things – coins, books, rocks, figurines, records, what have you – but there must be some reason that so many people lovingly gather certain things to display in their homes. Sometimes those collections go beyond the average, too, and that’s when...

There are some things we buy knowing they’re frivolous. Other items we expect big things from (because maybe they came with big price tags) only to be disappointed, the thing relegated to the back of a closet where we don’t have to look at it and be reminded. Then there are the times – rare...

When you’re thinking about spending money on something, many people hem and haw regardless of the price tag. The more we spend, the more we expect our purchase to work out the way we imagined – to make our lives easier or more fun or more colorful or just more streamlined, maybe. If you’re looking...

If you’ve never worked in food service, then you’ve never had the opportunity to be completely stunned by the food or drink another human being with put into their body with relish. Things that you think are objectively gross, turn out not to be. Things that should never be combined are smacked together and gobbled up,...

Remember that scene (or scenes) from When Harry Met Sally when she orders her food and it’s like, incredibly specific and takes her two or three minutes to finish? And the waitress is like…sure, lady. If you’ve spent any time at all working in food service, you’ve had customers just like that – so many, in...

We are currently in the middle of a mass extinction event, in which we are in danger of losing hundreds, maybe thousands, species of animals forever. It’s sad to think about, this morbid marking of time passing, of the marks we humans leave on the planet, but recent evidence suggests it’s not a novel event...