Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

If you’ve got kids, then you know what a fun hit the bubble gun has been in recent years. And sure, they can’t seem to make one that lasts longer than a week or two before going in the trash, but hey – they cost less than $5 a pop, so you get what you...

One of the side effects of this strange and beautiful, but deeply flawed country is that so much history has been left out of the books most of us read during K-12. For instance, until recently, there were far too many people who had never heard of, or never learned in depth about, the annihilation...

Relationships are hard, and sometimes the ones with family are even more complicated than the romantic or friendship-types you choose on your own. It’s tougher to call it quits with family, honestly, because there are all kinds of complicated feelings that go along with the people who are supposed to love and protect you choosing...

We are living in a dystopian nightmare. There’s no point in arguing about it, either – between the murder hornets, climate change, and the literal plague (among way too many other things), we are definitely not living in the best of times. They are interesting times, though, so there’s that. If you’re looking to wallow...

There are so many weird people out there, and so many resulting oddities on Cragislist, that you have to be pretty stinking strange to end up on a list of the absolute weirdest. And yet here we are, my friends, with these 17 delightfully weird ads. You’re welcome. 17. I don’t have anything nice to...

Here’s the thing. If you’ve always had jarred spaghetti sauce, there’s a good chance you think it’s pretty darn good. I grew up thinking all sauce came from a jar – both of my parents worked, so no one was simmering homemade spaghetti sauce for hours between getting home and putting kids in the bath,...

You may have read a recent piece or two about how people in Japan aren’ having sex. They’re not interested, the birth rate is suffering, and sociologists aren’t exactly sure why, how to fix it, or if they should. It turns out that, per recent data, the trend toward a disinterest in having sex is...

One of the hardest realizations of most of our adults lives is realizing that we have to feed ourselves (and our kids) three meals a day, every day, for the rest of our lives. It inevitably leads to more than one night a week when you’re tired of everything you make, you don’t feel like...

We all make mistakes, every single day. They run the gamut as far as big, small, consequences, minor or major annoyances, and we’ve all figured out how to deal with them in our own way. There’s no arguing that these 16 mistakes would have been a pretty huge deal, though…if these people had gotten caught....

It makes total sense to me that there are hundreds of thousands of little things about the natural world that we don’t understand, can’t know, and may never be aware of, but that doesn’t mean the facts don’t blow my mind when they do come to light. And while it’s hard to imagine what science...

The world of parents who are overwhelmed by their toddlers being, well, toddlers, and who have to call in help to manage their little heathens, is something of a mystery. In America those shows enjoyed a brief flare of popularity that soon died…probably because we just went back to letting our kids do whatever they...

We all try to leave the world just a little better than we found it, right? At least, this whole place would be a wee bit nicer if we all did. If you’re looking for ways to make small gestures for the planet, or for your fellow human, take notes from these 15 people –...

There are all sorts of people on the internet, god love ’em. All sorts of people make the world go ’round, right, and that’s the way things are. When you’re buying or selling things online, or maybe reading memes posted by your family and friends on Facebook, interacting with all of them, it can get...

If there’s one thing you would think Americans could get right, it’s their flag. We love that thing. We love to salute it, fly it, wave it in people’s faces, the whole nine yards. But, strangely, a large number of people can’t seen to recognize it in miniature. The proof is in these 15 folks, who chose...

It seems like there is a subreddit for absolutely everything in the world, and I, for one, am mostly grateful. That goes double for the subreddit Crackhead Craigslist, because I get to enjoy all of the hilarity and oddities and never have to actually meet any of these people myself. These 15 ads were so...