Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

If you live somewhere you can shop in bulk, and can always make sure that you have the foods you need (and the only frozen fried crap your kids will eat), then your freezer is probably your best friend. Chicken nuggets, fries, fruits and vegetables – anything that can be saved in the freezer is...

The longer I live, the more I’m convinced that only a small percentage of the population actually enjoys playing pranks. The rest of us are long-suffering, either smiling along and semi-appreciating the humor or wishing they would cease and desist immediately. This guy used to hide in the pharmacy counter at his work to give...

There’s a saying that proliferates in this day and age of everyone having a camera – “pics or it didn’t happen!” It goes along with “seeing is believing” and “a picture is worth a thousand words,” I think, and our innate instinct to believe our eyes over most of our other senses. Luckily for all...

A photograph is worth a thousand words, whether it’s intentional or not – and sometimes, we get capture moments in time that no one would have believed were it not caught on film. Rare moments, unlikely happenings, those are things that no one can prepare for, because by their very nature, we don’t know when...

I would hope that everyone these days realizes that pretty much nothing we own is secure. We trust companies to monitor things like fraud when it comes to our bank accounts and credit cards, but with devices listening in all the time and security on apps and tablets and phones that’s dubious at best –...

Most of us realize that we’re holding on to too much crap because of its “sentimental value.” It’s things from our childhood, from our youth, things we wrote or attended, or that belonged to parents (or children) we’ve loved and lost. We know it just clutters up our homes, closets, or basements. We never look...

Most people I know love a good riddle, but if you go searching for them on the internet, you don’t always find the cream of the crop on the first try. There are thousands of riddles out there, of course, and most of them are good for at least a second or two of head-scratching....

When you’ve got a good thing going, sometimes your instinct is to keep it to yourself. Too many cooks spoil the broth and all of that, am I right? Riddles don’t really seem to be of those things. Much like puns, they’re much more delightful if you have someone to tell them to, to be...

For some people, getting out of bed in the morning is one of the best parts of their day. For the rest of us, it’s snooze buttons and dragging to the coffeepot while we try to clear our bleary eyes and muddled brains, to get them ready for a new day. Whichever kind of person...

I love words. They’re interesting, and fun, and it’s such a great feeling when you can find exactly the right one – the one that was on the tip of your tongue for a few seconds before it rolled right off. I know not everyone gets the same enjoyment out of a perfect word find,...

I’m sure you’ve heard people say that pet owners kind of start to look like their animals after a time, the same way spouses start to resemble each other after they’ve been married for awhile. I think it’s just that we start to really get the other person (or animal) and so we naturally adopt...

I think it’s natural to wonder what other places, other people, and other cultures think about your own – and not just what they would tell you when you ask, either, but what they believe when no tourists are looking over their shoulders. Well, it turns out we don’t have to ask – we can...

There are days when you want to challenge your mind. When your brain is in need of a meal full of protein and carbs, when it wants to learn and grow and work until it collapses into bed that night. There are other days when you feel like taking it easy. When you don’t want...

The race to find cleaner, more accessible, and less damaging forms of energy has been accelerating in recent years, and now China has taken a giant step forward as far as their nuclear power research capabilities. They’ve been developing the HL-2M Tokamak reactor, the country’s largest and most advanced nuclear fusion experimental research device, and...

If you were a child once, there’s a good chance that you were fascinated with dinosaurs. If you’re an adult, there’s a chance that fascination lives on – you love the Jurassic Park movies, and somewhere in the back of your mind, you think it would be pretty awesome to meet a live dinosaur…as long as...