Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

We’ve all been sitting around with friends or family and listened to someone tell us their idea for a “great” business idea that you realize right away isn’t great at all. Fewer of us have probably seen that person actually try to execute that idea, but bless their hearts, it does happen. These 17 people have...

Compliments are a strange beast at the best of times. People aren’t comfortable accepting them, sometimes what seems like a compliment to one person might not seem like that at all to someone else, and the list goes on and on. These 15 people found themselves in those odd places, where someone says something totally...

Everyone makes mistakes. That’s something I tell my young kids just about every day, no matter how they don’t like to hear it – because the thing about mistakes is that you’re supposed to learn from them. These 16 people learned a lesson from their mistakes, and sadly, it was mostly financial. If you’re looking...

Travel is one of the best things in the world (if you ask me), but stepping out of your comfort zone – or out of your home base – often means accepting that there are a certain amount of mishaps that happen along the way. These 14 people might be able to laugh about these...

There are some people in this world who are just lucky – when they open up walls or stick their hands into the backs of cabinets, they don’t come back with a big mess and a spider bite, but with treasures clutched in their fists instead. Which is exactly what happened to these 10 people,...

There’s no doubt in anyone’s mind who has raised – or been – a teenager that it’s not the most peaceful time at home. Parents are naturally at odds with kiddos who are struggling for some independence, and even though it’s normal, it can still be hard. Good thing we have parents like these 10,...

One of the things no one tells you about working in animal rescue is how many different names you will have to come up with during your tenure. The names have to be unique, since you’ll likely be dealing with vet records, and they have to be both adorable and memorable enough to catch the...

There are too many things to count, really, if we’re talking about things we believed about adulthood that turned out to be wrong – or the crappy parts of being grown up that everyone fails to tell you. I don’t know what the secrecy is all about, because most people aren’t going to opt out,...

People and their experiences are unique enough that there really are no “universal truths,” per se. That said, there are truths that apply to the majority of people with human DNA, but pinning those down can be pretty tough. Unless you’re Instagram account @truthfactsofficial, because every single graphic they post seems to be right on, at...

I’m starting to realize that there is no easy stage of parenting. There are some that will suit you better, probably, and some that are inherently more adorable than others, but overall, each stage has it’s ups and downs. When it comes to parenting teens, the best way I’ve heard it described is “bigger kids,...

If you’re someone who has adopted a dog, cat, or other animal from a shelter, there’s a good chance you’ve used Petfinder.com. It basically lets you sort through all of the shelter pets in a certain target area, and let’s you filter by type, age, breed, whatever. You’ve probably also noticed that shelters tend to...

If there’s one single thing that’s true about being an adult, I think it’s that no one is really an adult. We’re all faking it, just walking around pretending we know what we’re doing when in reality, we have no idea. These 14 people think they know a few other things about being an adult,...

I’m betting that you clicked on this article because you love charts and graphs, and let me tell you, I could not agree more. They are awesome on principle, but a graph that applies across the board? Color me intrigued. If you’re intrigued, too, you’re going to love these 15 accurate graphs from Instagram account...

I honestly thought that watching movies over and over again was a normal thing to do, even after one left toddlerhood behind – because if I was going to make a list of movies I’ve seen at least five times, it would be pretty long. And let’s be honest, not all of them could technically...

Anyone who has kids can tell you, for sure, how funny they can be. Sometimes they’re trying, sometimes it’s just a happy accident, but those moments when your children make your family burst out with laughter are some of the sweetest ones we get. These 11 kids landed some seriously funny one-liners – and they...