Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

One of the more mortifying moments of my life was being at a friend’s house, clogging the toilet, and not being able to find a plunger. Which meant I had to go and inform my friend (and her spouse) that I needed their plunger. And if I thought that couldn’t get any worse, well, then...

If you’re not old enough to remember the year The Shawshank Redemption hit theaters, then it will probably surprise you to learn that absolutely no one cared enough to go and see it. Strange, considering that the early buzz from critics was promising, and that test audiences had also rated it well – as well as...

Look, you either know about Trapper Keepers or you don’t. You’re one of us, and we can discuss all day about how they smelled and the sound the velcro made when you first pried it open, and how you agonized for weeks before picking your new one before a new school year, or you don’t...

As a Midwestern while girl born at the tail end of GenX, I can promise you that I was never raised to question the police. They were doing their jobs, putting their lives on the line, and while I never found out for sure, I am 100% positive my parents would have sh*t a brick...

We see a lot of talk about older people who grew up without the internet and have had trouble adjusting – or honestly, who just aren’t hardwired to keep up with the pace of how things constantly evolve – but we talk less about those things from the “good” old internet-free days that kids now...

It’s never a bad time to scroll through a list of posts that were designed to make the world a better place – and there’s no arguing that these pictures are just too adorable to keep a straight face. I’m serious. You can’t convince me that you didn’t break into a grin at more than...

You truly never know when something you do or say – without thinking about it or even by accident- is going to be the thing that completely turns around someone else’s day. That’s the beauty of life (and the tragedy, of course, since it also works in reverse), and the reason we say to remember...

Some people say that space, or maybe the planet’s vast oceans, are the last frontier, but I think they’re looking a bit too far afield – because the human brain sits right on top of our bodies, and we really have very little idea what makes it work. And also, we don’t know what like,...

Everyone was looking forward to the dawn of a new decade, but 2020 had plans that definitely didn’t include making people happy. Since January, half of Australia has burned down, koalas have died, Kobe Bryant’s helicopter crashed, the obvious devastation of the virus-that-shall-not-be-named, multiple natural disasters, plane crashes, murder hornets, rioting in the streets… You...

I know that the job of a writer it, to the best of their ability, accurately reflect the truth of the world around them. It’s also nice if they have something to say about it, but the reflecting is one of the more important aspects of putting words that might mean something on a page....

Sometimes there are great and intuitive reasons to put together a list of tweets, and sometimes we just like you probably need a laugh! These 14 tweets are all ready to deliver those in spades – so take a look and tell us how we did! 14. Except no one ever lets you off. And...

One of the things I’ve learned since being married to a man is that everyone’s pain tolerance scale is relative. It must be really hard to be a nurse and to figure out if someone is over or under-shooting on their pain unless you know them. Me, for example? Yes, I wanted an epidural for...

Most of us have or have had bosses in our time, and for me, at least, they’ve run the gamut. A few have been despicably horrible, a few have been outstanding, and most have labored somewhere in between. I’ve been tempted to call them out before, but the truth is, most people are doing their...

There’s no doubt in anyone’s mind that life in the big city is different from what people experience in very small towns – or in no town at all. Even so, there are probably a lot of things we city people don’t really think about being common (or the opposite) in a place very unlike...

Auschwitz and similar concentration (or death) camps have remained largely untouched aside from readying them to put their horrors on display for the public. Recently, historians and other researchers have been working to turn part of Auschwitz into a new exhibition, and they’ve made quite a discovery beneath the flue of a crumbled chimney. Knives,...