Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

I don’t know about y’all, but I love charts. And graphs, and pie charts, and really any pretty configuration of interesting facts. You can literally make one using any information you’d like, and somehow once it’s all colored and arranged, you want to know what it says. At least, I hope that’s how you feel, because...

There are about a million questions that pop into my mind just from the title of this post in Reddit’s Am I the A$$hole thread, but as usual, we have to let OP (original poster) have their entire say before we’re allowed to render judgement. Will this be a case of “knew it from the...

At some point in our lives, the majority of us will be forced to hunt for a job. It’s tedious, it’s time-consuming, and it’s often heartbreaking, to continue sending hope out into the world and get nothing but radio silence – or a chorus of “no thanks” back in return. In this day and age,...

Transformers have been around since the 1980s, which could be one of the reasons there are still television shows and movies and toys are still big business today. All of us 80s babies are now grown up, and many of us are parents, so we’re happy (thrilled) to share our love of everything Transformers with...

If you’re someone who enjoys stopping at a coffee shop on a regular basis – be it a Starbucks, another chain, or a local favorite – and you’re not the person with the crazy order, you’ve probably been stuck in line between your fair share of high maintenance customers. I’m sure you can imagine that, for...

When you hear the term “gossip,” or “gossiping,” there’s a good chance it’s said in a pejorative tone, or you have an immediately negative connotation in your mind. What if I told you, though, that it used to be something totally different, and that men throughout recent history have demonized the practice for very specific...

Every server hears stories about those anonymous, wealthy patrons who also realize the value of the hard work that most servers put in day in and day out and leave them an astronomical, life-changing tip. It happens, we know, but it’s hard to believe it could ever happen to us. I would suspect that goes double...

It’s easy to find horror stories about people who have met celebrities and then been totally disappointed at how they acted or how they were treated. We talk less, I think, about all of the times they met famous people who were charming, kind, and delightful – but surely those encounters happen, too. Proof? These...

You know the saying “never meet your heroes” became a thing for a reason; if you meet someone you look up to, there’s always the chance that they’re going to be jerks and totally ruin a lifetime of adoration. That said, there’s also always the chance that people will surprise you in a good way,...

If you were a moviegoer in the later 1990s or early 2000s, there’s literally no chance that you missed the rise of Brendan Fraser. He was the charming, affable star of films like Encino Man, Blast from the Past,  and The Mummy franchise. Then, just as suddenly, he seemed to disappear from Hollywood altogether. https://www.instagram.com/p/CMkq_aCH-ZG/ He gave...

It can be hard to remember sometimes that even famous people were just regular kids (or most of them, anyway – the Drew Barrymores of the world are few and far between). Kids make us smile, and no matter what you think of these people’s adults selves, it can be charming to see them as...

It’s not a requirement that celebrities be good looking, but it does seem as if it ends up that way a good portion of the time, right? But were they always adorable? Did they go through an awkward middle school transition like the rest of us? We may not have photo evidence of the middle...

One of the coolest things about being an artist – or really a human – is that any day, any time, we can choose to see the world in a different way. We can look around and glimpse more than the sum of the world’s parts, and if you’ve got an artist’s eye, you can...

Most of us go through our days a little bit on autopilot, not really noticing the world around us – and definitely not seeing magic in ordinary spaces. That’s where the eye of an artist is different, and such an asset to the rest of us. Yahav Draizin creates images with nothing but two smartphones...

We tend to think of well-lit, populated places in the middle of the day as being fairly safe. We let our guards down, we assume nothing bad can happen in public…but listen. Take it from the girl who watches tons of murder documentaries – that’s just not true. If you don’t believe me, listen to...