Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

This question, posed to Askreddit, is a loaded one: “what would you need to be happy?” There are so many different definitions of happy, so many ways to get there, and so many things that can steer you right off course, if you’re not careful. These 21 people attempted answers, though, and it’s worth reading...

There’s no way to go through life and not feel blue once in a while, unless you’re some kind of pod person, or in total denial of your human emotions. Even though it happens to everyone, and sometimes it’s okay to just sit with it for awhile, eventually we search for ways to bring the...

There are jobs we love, jobs we hate, and honestly, money only has a little bit to do with what separates one from the other. If you’re looking for an amazing job, income be darned, you might want to give these 16 a closer look. 16. Well I love all of this. Shift Manager at...

We all went through years of school and learned what we could, but the farther we get from that, the less that seems to come back to us. Or maybe it never stuck. Maybe your teacher couldn’t get through to you, or you weren’t in the right space to learn. Whatever the reason you’re not...

For some people, writing essays is a breeze. I am one of those people, who would have chosen an empty blue book and an essay test every day over anything multiple choice, and certainly anything that had to do with numbers. Other people are the opposite, and you know what, it takes all types. If...

I don’t know about you, but I love learning little behind-the-scenes secrets about all kinds of jobs and elements of society that are foreign to me. And I mean, combine that with zoos and zoo animals, and I feel like we’ve got a winner with this one! If you’re curious what goes on behind the...

Most everyone has an opinion on whether they’d rather live in a big city or a small town. We like the convenience, the hustle and bustle, or they crave the solitude and the quiet, and you’ll never convince me that the suburbs are somehow meant to be a combination of both. There are small towns,...

Cat lovers, listen up – scientists have more proof that your affinities may stretch back thousands of years into human history around the globe. The Nazca lines are a collection of huge drawings etched into the Nazca desert, located in Peru. The drawings were done between 500 BCE and 500 CE by carving depressions into...

It seems like there are some historical cultures that have fascinated a bulk of human beings since we started studying history. The Macedonians, the Romans, the Huns, the Mayans, pirates of all sorts, and, of course, the Vikings. If we believe Hollywood, they were all fair-haired and fierce, born with swords in their hands, they...

One of the most fascinating angles science has recently taken is following the idea that trauma can be handed down through one’s genetics. It could explain so much about how the grandchildren of Holocaust survivors seem to have actual memories of their time in concentration camps, and the legacy of slavery in the United States....

Every person is different. We’re all on different paths, with differing destinations and speeds that vary almost as much as we do, but if you’re looking for a few bars to have met by the time you turn the big three-oh, well, there are worse things. You don’t want to compare yourself to others necessarily,...

When you first hear that Dunkin’ Donuts – the king (or queen) of the uber sweet – offered a spicy ghost pepper donut, it sounds amazing, right? After all, you realize that salty and sweet go well together, so why not give spicy and sweet a try? Yeah… this is the stuff. https://www.instagram.com/p/CGVLb-2nAmU/?utm_source=ig_embed I’m here...

The world is full of gems and metals, some more precious than others. We know that because we’re told by gemologists and jewelers and marketing companies galore, but maybe you’ve never stopped to wonder why certain metals, like platinum, are so special. Is it their rarity? Something more? Keep reading to find out! The English word...

I don’t know what it is about true crime stories that fascinates me, but I’ve watched so many of them over the past few months that most of what I see now are reruns (for me). I just can’t get enough! If you felt that like a stab in the back, these 13 memes are...

If you want proof that Mother Nature does exactly what she wants, when she wants, and how she wants – human rules be damned – look no further than the platypus. Literally nothing about them fits into any scientific mold, and actually, scientists who were sent the first sample thought they were being punked. True...