Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

It’s nice to believe that nothing will change from the way it is today, and we can easily plan the rest of our lives without accounting for things like climate change, a shifting economy, natural disasters, and an unstable political landscape. That’s not reality, of course, so if you’re keen to worry (and maybe plan...

Traveling is usually the highlight of a year – or even of a lifetime – but there’s no denying that sometimes, places can underwhelm you. Worse, the experience can be downright negative, leaving you feeling as if you were swindled out of your time and money and given nothing but bad vibes in return. If...

There are more than a couple of reasons that we should all try our best to be patient and kind when dealing with strangers or friends-of-friends in public spaces. We don’t know these people, for one, and so shouldn’t they get the benefit of the doubt? Another reason, if you need one, is that by...

The menu at a restaurant is sometimes created by a chef, but more often than not it’s set by an owner, a manager, or some corporate dude who has no idea how to make a grilled cheese sandwich. Or he pretends not to, anyway, so someone else will make it for him. If you want...

Coincidences happen, of course – those things that shouldn’t have happened so perfectly but somehow did – and the small ones happen often enough that we’ve trained ourselves to shrug and move on. What about the big ones, though? The ones that you wouldn’t believe if they hadn’t happened to you, or the ones that...

The world is a different place than it was a decade ago, and of course, even more different than it was in the decades before that – and one thing that’s changed it how people are more and more willing to stand up for their beliefs in every day life. When we see racism or...

If you ask me, one of the better slogans to come out of the past decade is the ever-popular, always-applicable, “see something, say something.” It basically means that the time for keeping quiet in order to spare people embarrassment is over, at least when it comes to important issues that affect us all. One of...

As much as many of us really enjoy gardening, having a green thumb is harder and takes considerably more effort – and luck – than you might have thought going in. That said, even the greenest of gardening thumbs can struggle from time to time with certain plants, seasons, etc. If you’ve got a bunch...

When we go to dinner with family or friends, we often decide to split the bills down the middle in order to make things fair, or at least to help avoid that always-awkward argument about who’s paying this time around. It turns out that’s not always the best way to do things, not if you’re...

We go about our business every day assuming that the people around us are working at a decent level of intelligence. One that allows us to interact and understand each other, to work together toward forming a society, etc. It always comes as a bit of shock, then, when someone you thought was moderately intelligence...

Butterflies are one of those things that totally enchant you as a child, and honestly, not much changes as we age. There’s something mysterious and magical about these creatures that begin their lives as wormlike caterpillars and emerge, weeks later, as beautiful butterflies that just captures us – and let’s be honest, it’s not a...

I love when people think outside the box, or get weird notions and go after them down the rabbit hole. It’s like fan fiction but shorter form, and people on the internet love to jump on a question like “think about Batman’s totally normal son, probably named Brad or something.” Brad wasn’t raised with the...

People who serve in the United States military, reserves or otherwise, know that they have the full legal force of that military at their backs, and therefore are typically confident when dealing with civilian managers, etc. Civilian managers typically realize what they’re working with, too, but listen. Sometimes our egos really do get the better...

One of the hardest and scariest things we do as parents is leave our kids with people who are essentially strangers. Sure, we can get references and sure, our kids can give us their feedback (if they’re old enough), but even though hiring babysitters is a part of life for most of us, the truth...

As an American, I can admit that the Brits are like, the wannabe OG Americans and Aussies. They are the OG white Americans and Aussies, I suppose, and as with every parent-child relationship, there are bound to be some spats among family members. Luckily there’s also a lot of love in families, so these 17 salty conversations...