Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

I read a lot. I’ve been a voracious reader since I was a young child and had to beg my mom for new books, and even so, in my entire life, I’ve only read perhaps a dozen books that I would classify as “unputdownable.” Those books you’d ignore your chores over, the ones you’d call...

Chances are that when you think of the Twilight phenomenon, great art is not what comes to mind. Whether we’re talking about the books, the movies, or both, there’s a certain amount of cheese, and a great amount of shrugging at parts, even by those who are lovers of all involved. I mean, the dialogue is...

Racism clearly remains a rampant, heartbreaking, and tough problem in the United States. It’s part of our history, but if we don’t want it to be part of our legacy, it seems there’s still a lot of work to do. Part of what most people believe works is calling it out when we see it...

People all over the world love their Coca-Cola, and have for decades. It’s all great, of course, until you realize how big a contributor to the global climate crisis plastic bottles are – but Dutch company Avantium might have a solution. Companies like Coca-Cola, Carlsberg, and Danone are supporting their efforts to develop a plant-based...

We all fail sometimes, you know? We do our best, we go into things with so much optimism, but then there’s no way to get around the fact that things just did not turn out the way we’d hoped. And luckily for all of us (but maybe not so much for the people involved), the...

I’m not sure when the first time was that I realized these “celebrity paradoxes” existed. If you’re not sure what that means, it’s when a character or storyline on a tv show or in a movie references a celebrity, and then later, that celebrity appears, not as themselves. Or, it could be when two actors...

There are some weird things that jump out at you immediately, and some things that you only notice when someone points them out…and then you can’t unsee it. These “celebrity paradoxes,” when a celebrity is mentioned on a television series or movie and then later appears on the show or another movie (not as themselves)...

If you don’t know what a celebrity paradox is, it’s when a real person is referenced on a television show and then the actor shows up on a later episode, not playing themselves. And everyone just acts like they’re not who everyone was talking about before (or look exactly like them). It can feel a...

Look, we’re all figuring out different ways to amuse ourselves and keep from going crazy while we’re “working” from home. Some of us are dealing with kids – little ones who need to be entertained all day, older ones whose school work need to be checked, while others are bored in silent houses with roommates...

We all know that we should wash our fresh fruits and vegetables before we eat them, right? They likely have dirt, pesticides, bugs, feces, and heaven knows what else smeared all over them, but listen…I honestly wasn’t prepared for the message that there are bugs inside them. And if you wash with vinegar, a bleach solution, store-bought...

Recent complications and you know, everyone having to stay at home for extended periods of time, have meant that movie theaters and concert venues all over the country – and the world – have had blank marquees. More than a few of them have decided to put them to work making people laugh, and I’ve...

Listen, anyone who works face-to-face with the public is bound to learn a thing or two about people, whether they’re trying to or not. Some of it is amusing, some of it is profound, some of it isn’t memorable at all, but here’s the thing – we could all use a little more insight into...

Books are sacred. It’s impossible to throw them out – what if you want to re-read them? What if you want to stare at the cover and remember the feeling it gave you the first time you cracked it open? What if you want to share it with your kids some day? What if you...

Listen, divorce is no picnic. Divorce when there are kids involved is even harder – I was a stepmother once upon a time, from when a boy was three until he was around twelve, and it was very hard to know what the right thing was to do when exiting his father’s life. I’m not...

Listen, if you’re not someone who loves books and loves to read, you may be fine with what you’re about to see. It may not bother you one bit to see books in states such as these, I don’t know. What I do know, as someone who drinks books like water, is that every last one...