Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

There are all kinds of art in the world, like there are all kinds of artists and all manner of people looking to see something, learn something, or know something from the art they take in. If sweet, heartwarming, small-but-perfect moments are your thing, then Ann Arbor, MI chalk street artist David Zinn should be...

I mean, if you live in America and walk among Americans on a daily basis (or just interact with them on Facebook), there’s a good chance you’re already questioning the American education system – just saying – but if there was any doubt in your mind that we’re failing a good portion of the public,...

I think that if there’s one thing that’s true about almost every parent out there, it’s that we’re doing our best. We might not have all of the tools, we might be overworked, emotional, struggling with our own mental health, or stretched too thin, but we’re not ever intending for those things to wreak havoc...

If you’re a fan of science fiction, then you’re probably thinking that you’ve seen this movie before (and you definitely have). People imagining the future, or ways human beings might be able to live forever, have long turned their eyes toward possibly “uploading our consciousness” into a machine as a way to make that happen,...

Mars has gotten the nickname “the red planet” because of the way the surface shows up a rusty color in the images we get from the many NASA probes and expeditions we’ve been lucky to successfully launch. What if I told you, though, that’s it’s really just the dirt – that the redness of the...

If there’s one thing I would like to change about the human race with the snap of my fingers, it would be to let people say the don’t understand something and to ask for clarification without judgement or embarrassment. Ok, fine, there are other things I would change first, but this would would literally impact...

In an ideal situation, our employers treat us as well as we treat them. The relationship is symbiotic, at its best, and all parties benefit when everyone is happy. That seems like an easy concept to grasp, and the one that works the best for everyone involved should be what people choose, but for some...

On most days, servers are able to keep their cool. Working with the public, serving food and drinks, it can always get a little hairy, and on the worst of days, people get under your skin – you learn to get used to it, both for the sake of our jobs and our sanity (plus...

Don’t you hate it when a franchise is rolling along, full or one or two or even three great (or at least not terrible) movies, and then BANG. A bad movie enters the picture, and it completely ruins everything that came before – or that might come afterward – from then on. If you’re curious...

When someone asks us a question in every day life, I think most of us feel badly if we don’t know the answer – which is crazy, because no one knows everything about everything, right? Or even a little bit about some things, because we all have our specialities and areas of interest. A person...

You’ll hear people take issue these days with how people are “offended by everything” and we have to walk on eggshells so as not to “trigger” someone into being offended, and even though it’s obvious that there are a certain number of people who feel this way, I’m not sure how true it is. It...

Some people in this world have naturally green thumbs. The rest of us range somewhere between “can grow things if we really focus” and “kills everything, even the houseplants that are supposedly impossible to kill.” If you’re somewhere in that latter group but would like to change your murderous relationship with the plants in your...

If you’re an avid Disney fan – or even just someone who watches a lot of movies and pays attention to detail – it’s probably no secret that Disney’s animators recycle some of their animations into multiple subsequent films. If the only reason they do that is to save money, it turns out they save...

I used to think that there were probably nice, normal families out there without secrets, and without skeletons hiding in the closet. The older I get, though, the more I realize that’s not true – human beings are unpredictable, but if there’s one thing they’re consistently good at, it’s making decent sized messes of their...

The Office is a super popular television show because it’s hilarious, but listen – none of us would actually like to work in that office, right? Michael Scott is cringe enough to watch on television; can you even imagine having to deal with him in real life? I’m sure some of you have had similar experiences,...