Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

Lying might be one of those things that everyone does, but when you’re in a position of power and leadership, it’s always something that should make you think twice. Sadly, the fact that being in a position of power or leadership means you’re less likely to be caught encourages the opposite, and history is full...

Look, I suspect that most of us believe we’re doing a good job/our best job at maintaining these bodies of ours. They take a lot of attention and work, though, and sometimes a thing doesn’t occur to you until someone else brings it up, right? If you want to make sure you’re cleaning yourself as...

The decision whether or not to have children – and when to be done having children – is an intensely personal one. For most of us, we’ll make it with consideration of our own desires as well as those of any romantic partners and no one else. What’s it like actually pulling the trigger, though?...

Pregnancy is an exciting time, and that’s usually extra true when it’s the first one for a couple. It’s also a daunting time, and can be a super stressful time, and it’s awesome when you have a partner by your side for support. OP in this case is the brother of the pregnant woman, and...

I want to believe that most people who become parents would never dream of handing over their teenager to someone else, but the reality of the foster care system proves me wrong. It’s still hard to imagine, though the 15yo in this case is also experiencing it firsthand. His parents divorced when he was 3,...

Makeup might not seem like the most important thing in the world, but for many women, looking their best when they step out the front door goes a long way toward happiness, fulfillment, and confidence. For women who wear glasses, finding eye makeup that doesn’t completely disappear behind their frames has always been tricky at...

There are all kinds of reasons that people buy things, and actually needing them is nowhere near the top of the list. Most of us have what we need to survive a year or longer (except perhaps food), but we’ve been conditioned to think we “need” to replace things, grab new things, keep up with...

When it comes to how expensive things are right now, there is no shortage of things to complain about – and absolutely nothing is a frivolous complaint, either. The rental market is no exception, and although you probably realize that it would follow the trends in theory, this post brings how the reality of just...

We take for granted these days that so much of our lives are online that sometimes we don’t stop to think about whether or not we want all of our personal information to be so readily available. You’ve probably seen those little Google cars tootling around, mapping your streets and your neighborhood, but did you realize...

Every single human being might be a unique individual, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have a fair amount of shared experiences. We’re all more alike than we are different, after all. These 16 people think they’ve come up with things that happen to everyone (or at least, they hope they happen to everyone) even...

For me, one of the best things about life is how there is always something new to learn. No matter how smart you are, no matter how many years of school or decades on the job, life always has secrets to give up if you’re willing to look. If that kind of thing intrigues you,...

It’s funny how fast things change when you’re eighteen. One minute you’re a kid living under your parents’ roof with things like chores and curfews and a few months later you’re in college, free to come and go as you please. Along with the mistakes most of us make while we’re figuring out how to...

Now that we have access to the internet and everyone’s childhood experiences, it can certainly seem as if more people were bullied as kids than weren’t – which is sad, but also somehow comforting. These 11 people are looking back on how far they’ve come and thinking about how being bullied shaped them into the...

Glow-ups are a fact of life, because honestly, I would say that a majority of people do not peak in high school – and that’s good news. Still, some of us were bullied in high school because of our looks, so there can be some truly excellent fallout of becoming more attractive as we age –...

There’s no denying that most of us are living pretty busy lives these days. Work, relationships, housekeeping, kids, screaming into the void – it all takes up a lot of our time. When something catastrophic happens, such as an illness or accident, it can really throw a spotlight on where we spend our time (and...