Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

Life behind bars is something you can only understand if you’ve lived it, and those of us who haven’t harbor a bit of a morbid curiosity about what it’s like. So when someone on Reddit asked the ex-convicts among them to share the worst memory they had of a guard while they were behind bars,...

I’m not sure that most people – or anyone in their right mind – would argue that we deserve animals in any way, shape, or form. They are so pure, so adorable, so loving, and so loyal even when we don’t deserve it that it brings a tear to my eye just thinking about it....

There’s been a push lately that’s related to a larger discussion around equal pay, and it suggests that there’s too much secrecy around how much people make for the same or similar jobs. Until now, salary has been one of those things people are trained to keep to themselves, because it’s personal or they don’t...

I imagine that there’s quite a bit about being a 9-1-1 operator that’s pretty tough to deal with. You’re the person who gets the call when a stranger is scared, hurt, or both, and getting help to them while you keep them on the line has to be nothing short of extremely stressful. It’s a...

Humans might be pretty far removed from our days living among the animals in the wilds (relatively speaking), but that doesn’t mean all of our instincts have faded into the night. We still get the chills, we still sense when things aren’t completely right, and most of us get a spidey sense that tells us...

When you think about hobbies like beekeeping or collecting Disney pins, you probably assume the people who get super into it are sweet or maybe hippies, but who definitely just want the best for everyone involved. While that may be true of the bulk of the people in any given hobby, there are dark sides...

For most of us, our reputations in this life reflect our actions. We do good, people assume we’re good, and the opposite is equally true. There have been plenty of moments throughout history, though, when unfair or flat-out wrong assumptions are made, and because of media and public opinion and history books being written by...

When people break a record, whether it’s sports, something random, or something that’s even out of our control, I think we have to assume that someone, somewhere, someday, is going to break them. It’s the nature of records, after all – they’re made to be broken and all of that. Even so, some of them...

Relationships are hard across the board, but for parents who are juggling their children’s feelings against their own happiness in a new relationship, the road can be rocky indeed. In this case, OP finds himself stuck between his young daughter, who he keeps a few days a week, and his girlfriend, who is losing her...

There are so many good places to work that are run by decent human beings who truly do their best to do right by their employees. Sadly, there are a fair amount of places and managers who are the exact opposite. They treat people poorly, and even sometimes take advantage of them to the point...

There’s no one in the world who is not going to argue that marriage isn’t hard (or relationships in general aren’t hard), and adding kids into the mix makes things harder, not easier. And when two people who have children decide to get divorced, then have to still co-parent for years to come? Super hard....

There are some things in life where the generic is going to do you just fine – and other things where paying a bit more for the “brand name” will leave you a much happier customer in the end, despite the price. It can be hard to know which is which, though, unless you’ve already...

If you’re a person who takes road trips, or who travels across any country fairly often, chances are you’ve stopped in some pretty gross and sketchy places – or at least you did before you had to worry so much about other people’s germs. It takes quite an impression, then, for a spot to earn...

Getting to the interview part of a job search can be an exciting time, and most of us hope that it will be the beginning of the end to what is a grueling and not-at-all fun process. You’d think it would take a pretty strong reason, then, for someone to get up and walk out...

When you’re young, you can be a bit uptight about things that might be embarrassing, and bodies are probably close to the top of the list. The older you get the more you realize that not only does everyone have a body, but they’re also inherently funny – at least, I have. Of course, when...