Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

If you ask me, it’s always a good day for a fun chart. Bar graphs, overlapping circles, pie charts, whatever the colorful representation of data, I am here for it. Which is probably why I love Matt Shirley’s dedication to posting a random chart per day so much – well, that and I’m a writer,...

There’s nothing quite as disconcerting as losing your wallet. It contains money, your ID, a bunch of cards that will have to be canceled and then updated on various sites, and on and on – it’s more than a little annoying, basically. That annoyance and stress doubles when you lose your things on vacation, away...

The past several years have seen unrest in response to policing practices across the United States, and even the world. Cities have struggled with protests, violence, clashes that have resulted in injuries and deaths on both sides of the line, and the ultimate question – what should they do about it? Suggestions run the gamut,...

I’m the first person to admit to being a huge history nerd, and I’ve gotta say…I’m not that embarrassed about it, either. History is interesting, it’s fun, and most importantly, once you’ve studied enough of it you can validate your depression because you can see exactly how our current society is hurtling toward destruction. Fun,...

If you’re in need of a lighthearted moment or two, a chuckle or maybe even a laugh, there’s no better place than the internet, honestly. And if you want the most bang for your buck as far as social media and giggles, Twitter is the place to be. We think these 13 posts are funny...

It can be fun to think up alternate slogans for your favorite brands of foods, electronics, stores, what have you – especially when you get to be brutally honest about their strengths and weaknesses. And I mean, people love truth, so who knows? Maybe they would work. Scroll through these 17 totally honest (but sometimes...

There are a ton of businesses and products and other types of offerings out there that just, you know…they’re not doing their best. Or maybe they are, and it’s just not good enough. Sometimes we can simply avoid those brands and our lives are better for it, but sometimes they’re things that, for one reason...

Obviously, when we’re going out for some (relatively) cheap food at a joint where you go through a drive thru or order at a counter, we’re not expecting to get gourmet or healthy fare. That said, most of us hope, at least, that what we’re putting in our mouths is going to be what was...

We might go to fast food places knowing that we’re getting a bunch of fat, preservatives, and other additives that will make us have regrets (probably sooner rather than later), but we hope that the places we frequent take their cleanliness and other health standards seriously. We probably realize, though, that’s not always true –...

I think that, when it comes to zodiac signs, the majority of people fall into the “eh, whatever” category. We enjoy reading our horoscope now and again, and we totally know our signs and all of that, but we’re not organizing our life around what the stars say is going to happen. There are some...

Some people – maybe even a lot of people – are derisive when talking about people who live their lives by their astrological charts. They use them to understand their (and other people’s) personalities, to guess what the next move might be in their career or personal life, and a hundred things in between. And...

Real Talk: There are so many things that are called romantic in books and movies and songs but, when you apply them to real life, are nothing but creepy and/or toxic. Singer and songwriter Naya Ford took that truth head on during a TikTok video, asking her followers to weigh in on “something that people...

You know that moment when you turn over the price tag on something and your mouth just falls open? Maybe you laugh a little because of the shock, or show it to a friend, but deep down, you know for sure that the thing – whatever it is – is not worth what’s being asked....

Most of us have a gut feeling, I think, when something we’re looking at online or in a store is totally overpriced. Even if you’re not super familiar with whatever the item is, we sort of have an idea in our minds about what it’s worth. In these 17 cases, people’s radars went off right...

There are some things in life that we expect to be hard going in, and so we’re pretty accepting when that’s how it goes. Other things are as simple as we expect, and others we think are going to be rougher than they turn out to be (those are the best). On the opposite end...