Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

As if I need more reasons to stick with being my own boss, it has become increasingly popular in job interviews to ask applicants to solve certain problems or riddles. The way people respond tells potential employers about their thought processes, the way they respond to stress, and sure, a little bit about what they...

We’re always looking for new ways to turn games we love into a game we can play while also drinking, and I don’t know about you, but a giant Jenga game that comes with Jell-O shots sounds pretty darn intriguing. Except for the Jell-O part, but I suspect you could replace them with any sort...

No one likes to have bad dreams. Whether you’re an adult or a child, there’s something terrifying and disconcerting about waking up in the middle of the night, gasping and finding out that your brain has betrayed you yet again. We’ve all had some scary nightmares over the years, but these 18 people are lucky...

No one likes having a nightmare, and sometimes, the fact that recalling them can be tough is probably a blessing in disguise. Or maybe not even in disguise, just a blessing. These 17 people had dreams so scary that not only did they remember them when they woke up, but they still haunt them to...

Dreams are most often at least a little bit strange, and sometimes that strangeness can take on a darker tone that leaves us, at best, unsettled when we open our eyes. Then there are the nightmares that make us terrified to go back to sleep – the ones that change us, a little bit, and...

Stereotypes are weird things, and misogyny is nothing if not insidious. There’s no reason for people to associate the job of “chef” with “man” these days, but I would venture to say that most people probably do. There’s less reason for cooking at home to be seen as something women do, but ask the majority...

Alan Rickman was beloved, and is remembered by so many as an amazing actor and a fine human being, and now his estate is going to publish his diaries – which I imagine only confirm our sunny image of the man behind the scenes. And don’t worry – he always intended his diaries to be...

It can seem like there is so much content coming at us all the time that it’s impossible to find the good stuff unless we hear about it from our friends. Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, those networks that won’t give up…it’s a lot, y’all! Movies, television shows, the new Taylor Swift album – it’s tough...

There’s something intriguing about all kinds of maps, if you ask me – and I’m not alone. People love maps when they’re interesting, when they’re useful, when they’re not, and yeah, it turns out even when they’re terrible. I mean, if something is funny on the internet, it doesn’t have to be good. Haven’t you...

Honestly, I feel like we should take advantage of screenshots like these 14 while we still can – the Silent Generation is waning (though even my 96yo grandmother uses Facebook), and at least half of the Boomer parents and grandparents I know navigate the day-to-day basics of scrolling and commenting without winding up on a...

Jobs are things most of us have to procure and keep through our years wandering this planet. There are great, amazing jobs and there are horrible jobs, but the truth is that most of the jobs you have over the course of your life will fall somewhere in the middle. Which means there’s a good...

The first time I signed up for an account on NextDoor it was because I’d lost my dog. I never realized, or anticipated, or could in any way prepare myself for the complete and total s**tshow that would come part and parcel with getting to know my neighbors. Like, the internet has done some wonderful...

I know it’s funny to post our parents and grandparents gaffs on social media, but listen – I give them major props for trying to figure out the technical and social aspects of the internet at all. I’m a late GenXer, and as someone who grew up both without the internet and with the internet,...

In America, kids become familiar with the Pledge of Allegiance from a pretty young age. They recite it in school, and even though that becomes less frequent (and is always optional), it’s not really something American children can avoid. We also don’t talk much about it, aside from what the actual words mean. We don’t...

There is so, so much about American history that they don’t teach us in school, and to be honest, the more I learn, the more I think they’ve definitely left out the best parts. Or at least, the most interesting ones. One of the areas where education is sorely lacking is pretty much anything revolving...