Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

I’m not sure what the psychology is behind why human beings love to collect things – coins, books, rocks, figurines, records, what have you – but there must be some reason that so many people lovingly gather certain things to display in their homes. Sometimes those collections go beyond the average, too, and that’s when...

There are some things we buy knowing they’re frivolous. Other items we expect big things from (because maybe they came with big price tags) only to be disappointed, the thing relegated to the back of a closet where we don’t have to look at it and be reminded. Then there are the times – rare...

When you’re thinking about spending money on something, many people hem and haw regardless of the price tag. The more we spend, the more we expect our purchase to work out the way we imagined – to make our lives easier or more fun or more colorful or just more streamlined, maybe. If you’re looking...

If you’ve never worked in food service, then you’ve never had the opportunity to be completely stunned by the food or drink another human being with put into their body with relish. Things that you think are objectively gross, turn out not to be. Things that should never be combined are smacked together and gobbled up,...

Remember that scene (or scenes) from When Harry Met Sally when she orders her food and it’s like, incredibly specific and takes her two or three minutes to finish? And the waitress is like…sure, lady. If you’ve spent any time at all working in food service, you’ve had customers just like that – so many, in...

We are currently in the middle of a mass extinction event, in which we are in danger of losing hundreds, maybe thousands, species of animals forever. It’s sad to think about, this morbid marking of time passing, of the marks we humans leave on the planet, but recent evidence suggests it’s not a novel event...

We’ve spent a decade or more gobbling up everything the internet has to offer. We’ve got apps on our phone, we’ve got our noses in social media, we share pictures of our lives and discourse with strangers, and for a long time, no one really stopped to think about what we were doing. Now, more...

You’ve probably noticed that any time scientists find water in outer space, they get super excited about it. Unless you’re a scientist yourself, or maybe a space enthusiast, you might not know why we’re supposed to be so amazed and excited, too, though – and we just can’t stand for that. NASA has always known...

I know that there are like, big important problems in the world, and smart, accomplished, innovative people should probably be spending their time and energy solving those, but…y’all. If you could make a real, live lightsaber that can actually cut through steel like it was nothing more than butter, wouldn’t you just have to do...

Puns are so bad… they’re pretty amazing. You know what I mean, right? Puns are at their very best when they are a truly terrible joke…that’s so good you have to give credit – in the form of a chuckle or a groan, or at least a shaken head – to its creator where credit...

Listen, I know that puns are awful and like, the lowest form of comedy or whatever, but listen – there has to be a reason that they’ve endured for so long, right? Maybe, somewhere in the dank, embarrassing, lazy parts of our brain, we love laughing at these stupid jokes! If you love shaking your...

I think the words “tired” and “parents” go together most of the time, but with the year we’ve all had, there’s no question that it does now. We’ve had a lot of togetherness, very little leaving the house, and are all trying to juggle work along with everything else. We could use a laugh, is...

I mean, I feel like, on any given day, most parents are in need of a laugh – and that goes double (or more) for this past year. Life with kids is tough – emotionally, physically, psychologically – and being able to laugh about the ridiculousness of the day-to-day is key to getting through it....

There are so many things we were taught in school that turned out to be flat wrong – and more things that, while technically correct, ended up not being the whole story. And if you spent an art class or several being told that the only primary colors were red, blue, and yellow, well…that’s not...

If there’s one thing I think is definitely true, it’s that you can never understand the transformation that happens when you have kids until you have kids of your own. You just can’t. It’s not good or bad, it just is. You also can’t fully grasp the concept of how fully immersed you become in your...