Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

If you’ve never worked on a movie set, there’s a good chance you’d love to work on a movie set. It sounds so exciting and fun, being in the middle of making art like that, and in some ways, it is. In the day-to-day, minute-to-minute ways, though, it’s pretty boring. Oh, well. At least we’ve...

It’s almost that time of year again – your flu shot is looming. Shots aren’t a fun thing for anyone, and convincing your kids to go with you and sit willingly to be stabbed is even less fun than undergoing the stick yourself. To add insult to injury, it’s not over and done with in...

We have all kinds of thoughts in the shower (if we manage to get time in there alone), and despite what the movies would have you believe, they’re not all gems. I have to say, though, that these 17 people’s wet-bodied musings are pretty good at making me do a double-take on what it’s like...

No one likes to believe that we’re not fully aware of what and why we make choices in our lives, but the truth is, our minds are far more complicated and vast than we’re able to control – or understand – most of the time. Here are 7 ways our mind’s biases influence us, whether...

There comes a time in most of our lives, a couple of times a year, when we really, desperately, want to get rid of some clutter. It can be hard to know where to start, though, and maybe you’re worried you’ll miss one thing or another after it’s gone. If you want some advice on...

You’ve probably heard a lot recently about gender, biological sex, and how they’re not the same thing. Gender is fluid, biological sex is not. Sex is assigned at birth due to a person’s genitalia, but gender is more complicated. It’s so complicated, in fact, that many older people, who lived in a world that didn’t...

I don’t know about you, but I’ve started to use the term “climate change” all the time, eschewing “global warming” so I don’t have to listen to arguments about how we’re having the coldest winter ever, or something like that. Apparently, though, they’re not exactly interchangeable, and how I’ve been using them isn’t quite right,...

In the exercise, fitness, and wellness industry, it seems like there’s always the next best new thing coming down the pike. Usually, the next best thing is also the next expensive thing, and if there’s one thing the Shake Weight taught us (you remember the Shake Weight, right?), it’s that looking stupid never stopped anyone...

History is full of interesting little tidbits, and one of the fun things about humans is that we’re always discovering animals that have gone extinct, never to be seen or heard from again. Sometimes that makes us sad (even when it shouldn’t, like with dinosaurs), and sometimes, like in the case of this horrifying cave...

This definitely falls under a question that people who don’t have twins always think is dumb, so I’m glad someone used this subreddit to finally ask! Parents with twins, are you 100% sure that both kids have the same name that they started off with? byu/Irishane inNoStupidQuestions You’ve got two infants – newborns, who all look sort...

A hot topic in sports like basketball, tennis, and soccer is that women’s teams and individual athletes are being paid lower salaries, despite working just as hard at the same job – and in the case of U.S. women’s soccer in particular, actually doing the same job better. Many arguments have been made that try...

The 90s were a simpler time, my friends, when parents weren’t terribly worried about what their kids ate, if they came home all day, or whether the playground equipment at McDonald’s was “safe.” If any or all of that brings to mind your childhood, then these 18 images of “vintage” fast food spots and meals...

Zoom is the new place to be, for friends, family, dating, what have you. It’s not ideal, but we’re all trying to be responsible (right?) and it’s what we have. It’s not so bad, really, except for the fact that now you have to keep you house clean (or at least a good background space...

If you are or have been married, you know that the littlest things, over time, can fester into much bigger problems. It’s also true that it’s easy enough to lose perspective when you’re inside a world of your own making for quite some time. Those are both reasons that people seek out therapists, but listen….these...

Every human being on the planet has regrets about how they spent their youth. It’s normal, but listen – if you can learn to take advice from those older than you, really hear them out, you can avoid making at least all of the mistakes we have. If you’re still young, here are 12 things...