Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

People were, understandably, a bit rattled by the fact that an airline – a company that should probably be spending its time and social media influence making us feel safer about air travel – was sort of joking about how to survive a crash. Though the information was presumably good and anchored in fact, KLM...

The English language is a mashed up horror show of other languages – one that’s hard to understand and even harder to learn, if you’re not born into it. But, true story… even native speakers might not be aware of all the ways it is so bizarre. You know who IS aware? People on Tumblr...

People mark all sorts of occasions with family photos these days: graduations, marriages, engagements, babies, and on and on. But what about people who are entering a different sort of life-phase, like having an empty nest again? While many parents mourn the loss of their house full of children, Vicky Piper and her husband chose...

As a reader, I can confirm that letting life and work duties steal all of the time I’d like to use to sit down with a book can start to eat away at my happiness. Reading is important to me, and according to multiple sources, it’s good for pretty much everyone else, too; it broadens...

After a friendly squatting competition spiraled out of control (there’s a sentence I never expected to type), two girls found themselves in intensive care due to pretty severe kidney damage. How? Trust me, I wanted to know, too. It began when Xiao Tang, a 19-year-old college sophomore and a friend challenged each other to a...

Cats. Love them, hate them…they honestly don’t really give a crap. But if you choose to co-habitate with one (not own one; that’s not a thing), or one chooses to co-habitate with you, then you have to know that these 15 situations are very likely in your future. Take it or leave it. Once again,...

Whales are one of those animals that seem to be universally loved and respected (if you leave out whalers, I guess), and images of the giant creatures washing up on beaches full of plastic, disoriented and dying, can shake people to their core. So when a group of beachgoers in Georgia spotted a pod of...

Group chat, man. A few years ago a meme was going around that said “I’ve never been held hostage, but I have been in a group chat,” and that pretty much sums up how most people feel about getting stuck in a never ending loop of competing conversation. You know how it is. Two people...

A massive west coast earthquake may have been the subject of more than one Hollywood disaster movie, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not really going to happen. And, according to scientists who are monitoring the San Andreas fault, the big one could be opening up any time. Recently Thomas Jordan, the director of the...

Photographer Emily McGuire has been married to her husband Mac for 12 years, and even though she’ll be the first one to tell you that he’s not usually one for creative presents or surprises, this birthday cake idea is definitely one for the books. See, like many of us these days, Emily loves shopping online....

There are all kinds of monsters lurking beneath the surface of the ocean, but only people brave enough to spend time without immediate access to unlimited oxygen get to see them with their own two eyes. Luckily for the rest of us, some of those people go into the deep armed with cameras – which...

My sister has lived with her epilepsy diagnosis since elementary school. She’s tried every drug available in various combinations and doses, she’s consulted with surgeons, she has a nerve stimulation implant. She’s gained weight. She’s lost weight. She’s learned how to live with her disorder, and how to cope with the costs of medication. Nothing,...

There are endless memes around the internet about hapless dads doing their best on the days their uber-organized, always-on-top-of-it wives leave them in charge of the house and the kids and probably a dog or two, as well. It never goes well in the stories – and in this case, the memes are on the...

By now you’ve probably heard that there’s a Facebook event called “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us,” and that around 2 million people have signed up to be there on September 20th. Set aside the fact that, as with any Facebook event, you can expect about 1% of people who say they’re...

If you’ve ever wanted to say you spent the night in a giant wiener (and I mean, who hasn’t), well…here’s your chance. In honor of National Hot Dog Day, Oscar Mayer listed its legendary Wienermobile as available for overnight stays on Airbnb; for the negligible price of just $136 a night, all of your hot...