Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

If you’re having one of those days when nothing seems to be going right, and you don’t think anything could make you smile, well, that’s when you turn to the internet. I mean, who better than a bunch of strangers trying to be funny to raise your spirits, right? I don’t know why that logic...

As a mom, I can say for sure that our kids are a delight in our lives, and while they can’t (and shouldn’t) be a reason to live, they definitely make the tough times bearable (and the good times even better). Now, there’s science to support the idea that moms who stay close to their...

Don’t you hate when you get in the mood to tidy and something gets in your way? For me, that goes for my phone, too, and when I want to put everything into neat little folders and trim all of the fat, I get so frustrated when there are apps I never use but can’t...

I don’t know about you, but for me, one of the coolest things to come out of the pandemic was people being forced to find new (distanced) ways to connect with friends, family, neighbors, and even strangers who cross our paths on a daily basis. Companies found new and innovative ways to find customers, education...

Working can be complicated, especially in a situation where a job is your first or you’re not given much power or chance to voice your opinion. First jobs, or jobs that we have when we’re teenagers, definitely fall into this category, and most of us quickly learn to do what we’re told and keep our...

There are times in life when you’re standing beside someone who is begging for a shovel, just dying to bury themselves in one way or another. Depending on the situation, you either take the shovel away and talk them away from the edge or you stand back and just let it happen. Or in this...

In a perfect world, everyone would get to do work that inspires them for employers who value them and their existence as whole human beings. We don’t live in a perfect world, of course, which means much of the time, we have to muddle through jobs that aren’t super fulfilling and bosses who don’t care...

If you’ve got kids, or have ever had occasion to read books to children, there’s a good chance you’ve come across The Monster at the End of This Book. First published in 1971, author Jon Stone and illustrator Michael Smollin struck gold, and you’d be hard pressed to find a children’s library that doesn’t contain...

There are many things that food service workers have in common, and things that every restaurant will have in common, whether it’s fast food or a more upscale, dine-in type of place. Managers, for example, seem to be similar everywhere, and if you’ve worked in food, you’ve definitely heard someone say “if you’ve got time...

Every job has secrets, it’s just that not all of them are required to be kept once you’re no longer employed. If you work for the CIA, you’ve probably got to take those to your grave, but otherwise…go ahead and spill. And if you’re someone who goes through that McDonald’s drive thru on a regular...

We’re all about facts here, and let me tell you, one of the best things about them is that there are always ones you haven’t heard coming down the pike. New ones, funny ones, shocking ones, and yes – weird ones – are just out there, waiting to come up in your presence for the...

When you ask someone for their favorite fact, you never know what you’re going to get in return. Most people probably have more like a handful of favorites, each to be deployed in the perfect situation, all designed to wow and excite people every single time. These 17 people are hitting us with their favorite...

Facts are something that almost everyone loves, and also, we all have our favorites. The ones we can’t wait to drop anytime we get the chance, the ones that never fail to get us the reaction we want – and yes, the weirdest things we’ve heard that are just impossible to forget. Those are the...

When you think about fun, niche hobbies like knitting, or stamp collecting, or maybe bird watching, you probably don’t imagine there’s a dark side, but listen – literally everything imagined and carried out by humans has an underbelly. That said, what goes on at say, backstage at a Yu-Gi-Oh convention might truly surprise you –...

If you look back at photos of yourself as a toddler, or even as a kid heading off to fourth or fifth grade, you might always be a little surprised to see how white-blond your hair used to be. It’s not true for everyone, of course, but there are a good number of people who...