Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

It turns out there were all sorts of ways to join the resistance against the Nazis during WWII. Even before Freddie Oversteegen and her sister Truus joined up at the request of the Dutch military, she and her family were hiding people – Jewish and Lithuanian – in their home. Her mother had divorced their...

Lisa M. Ca always loved feeding and watching birds. When she moved from Germany to Michigan to be with her husband, she noticed that while her feeders were still full, the birds looked different. So she did what any self-respecting woman would in 2016 – she bought herself a nice camera, taught herself to take...

The history of Africa’s Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) is tragic and violent, any way you slice it. The once blessedly forgotten corner of the continent was claimed by Leopold II of Belgium in order to exploit its rich rubber resources, and the lives of the people there would never be the...

Princess Leia. General Organa. Mother. Satirist. Sharp-Witted Queen. The world lost Carrie Fisher to a heart attack this week, and we’re all mourning the fact that such a towering pop-culture figure and, for many of us, childhood idol is gone from our lives. She doesn’t have to be, though. In addition to her iconic role...

If you have a cat (and let’s face it, who has just one cat?), you’ve likely got a few secondary issues around the house – hairballs, vomit, pee, stinky cat litter, clawed up furniture and curtains (good Lord, cats are a pita). But while those are issues that don’t exactly have a bright side, here’s...

2017 has officially begun. What better way to kick 2016 out the door (finally) than with some hilarious tweets predicting what will come to be in 2017? Hashtag Wars and the @Midnight viewers put their own spin on their thoughts (and hopes?) for the new year below – enjoy! #15. Additional prediction: “GRRM tries to...

It was a simple recipe: A cake with rainbow numbers inside of it. Posted rather innocuously on the internet, just one more helpful, cute pastry that a regular person would try and fail to make look anything like the picture. Then the comment section happened. It started out nicely enough, with an innocent question. But...

It’s that time again – the time Jimmy Fallon gets Twitter users to spill their deepest, darkest secrets in order to make people laugh. This week, it’s the dumbest lie they’ve ever told with #MyDumbLie. Some of them are pretty easy to relate to, but others…not so much. #15. Awww, way to throw yourself on...

What makes a marriage last has long been a topic of fascination for professionals and laypeople alike – probably because those of us who are married would like to know what the trick is, so we don’t have to do it a bunch of times before getting it right. While today we recognize that there’s...

To the rest of the world, America can sometimes seem like a bit much, I suppose. We definitely like to do things our own way, we don’t often think about stopping to explain anything, and a lot of times we assume that everyone else operates with the same worldview we do…and when people aren’t on...

If you need a lesson on how to stop a worrisome corpse from rising again, look no further than this recent archaeological dig in Poland. Now, we all know that Eastern Europe is famous for its belief in vampirism (hello, Vlad the Impaler), but these graves really give us a good visual on not only...

I don’t really have anything to say about this except enjoy these threads! Because the people on Tumblr have already said it all, and then some. #7. Are you the friend or the Nick? #6. Cleverbot may have been misnamed.   #5. ……..

A desk calendar is one of the things my mother wrapped for my dad every Christmas my entire life. He preferred Dilbert, for a while, and then Pearls Before Swine. Now he’s retired…but he still gets one. My uncle was a truck driver before he retired, and yet somehow asked for (and received) a calendar...

Um, they’re hilarious, and too, too, true. If you’re worried about his privacy or man feelings or whatever, don’t – he’s the one who found and uploaded them! Because, after all, good humor should be available for the world to enjoy, as well as being a quality one looks for in a life partner. Just...

Christmas is less than a week away, and no doubt your Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and all other social media platforms are starting to show signs of baking. In addition to making you hungry, it could be causing some anxiety – what are you going to make? The old standards? New favorites? Not to mention, that...