Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

If you’re not someone who was born or married into the world of the uber-rich, there’s a good chance you don’t really know what it’s like to live on the inside. Most of us never will, but these 17 people work jobs that give them clearance, if only for a little while – and luckily, they’re...

It can be really, really tough to be a teenager. Everyone tests their parents, explores their boundaries, and feels that urge to step out on their own – and when you have parents who consider themselves strict or traditional, things can get a little sticky at home. This sixteen-year-old was a little bewildered at her...

Marriage and weddings seems to bring out the very worst in a lot of people, don’t you think? In America, at least, we’ve put The Wedding on such a pedestal that “every little girl” dreams of her entire life, and so when things don’t go as planned, well…it can get messy. One of the traditions...

When you’re a kid and you have good parents who you trust, it can be a seriously shocking moment when you realize they are, in fact, just human beings like everyone else. They make mistakes, they make decisions we don’t agree with, and sometimes they don’t want to talk to us about them, either. This...

When it comes to family, I don’t think there are any hard and fast rules. That is, except for honoring other people’s hard and fast rules. In general “outing” a LGBTQ person who has chosen not to “out” themselves is a huge no-no, but still, people seem to think they’re stumbling across exceptions here and...

Y’all, there is something cool about living in a world where not only does literally anything you can imagine exist, but it exists in a way that it can also be in your home with the click of a button. That said, there are just some things in this world that absolutely should not exist – and...

I’m sure that most of us have ordered something online and, excited to receive it, gathered a package in from the porch…only to realize that the package is far too big for the small thing we bought and paid for, right? It’s silly, and we just shake our heads and snort before (hopefully) recycling  the...

The internet is nothing if not helpful, right? That’s why pro tips and life tips abound on pretty much every social media platform you can open – and they’re given by people who mostly have no qualifications, besides. While some of them really are great and have improved our lives here and there, these 12...

I know that some people love keeping secrets. It makes them feel important, or it makes them feel good that other people trust them, I don’t know. I personally hate it, because I’m not good at it and I honestly believe that secrets have a way of coming out eventually. These 16 people found themselves...

It can be hard to track down where and why myths really get going, whether they spread worldwide or stay in small, concentrated pockets like local towns. They can catch on quickly, and like a game of telephone, it doesn’t matter whether or not the information is true in order for it to get passed...

Now, you might be sitting there thinking that there’s no way to over prepare for a job or a role. You might be one of those people who believes preparation is essential and the only way to give 100% to your work, and while I won’t argue that point, I do think that sometimes people...

I think there’s something about growing up in the 80s that makes me wary of mannequins. They’re just…a little too likely to come to life in the middle of night, in my mind. That’s probably crazy, but hey. We all have our thing, right? These 20 mannequins are trying to change my mind, though, because...

Look, I know that the advice to “be kind” has really gained a lot of traction over the past several years, but hear me out – sometimes, that’s really bad advice Some people don’t deserve kindness, and sometimes you being kind in the face of someone else being awful and inappropriate just amounts to not...

I know that we’re supposed to be kind and go high and take the road above people who we’d really like to let have it, but let’s face it – sometimes it just feels really good to let a well-timed and killer insult fly, doesn’t it? These 14 people had some insults in their back...

Popular sayings usually get that way for a reason, and I’m certain that the majority of people in this world have been told more than once that “it doesn’t hurt to ask.” The idea, of course, is that if you want something, you’ll never know whether or not you could get it unless you simply...