Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

Honestly, I feel like we should take advantage of screenshots like these 14 while we still can – the Silent Generation is waning (though even my 96yo grandmother uses Facebook), and at least half of the Boomer parents and grandparents I know navigate the day-to-day basics of scrolling and commenting without winding up on a...

Jobs are things most of us have to procure and keep through our years wandering this planet. There are great, amazing jobs and there are horrible jobs, but the truth is that most of the jobs you have over the course of your life will fall somewhere in the middle. Which means there’s a good...

The first time I signed up for an account on NextDoor it was because I’d lost my dog. I never realized, or anticipated, or could in any way prepare myself for the complete and total s**tshow that would come part and parcel with getting to know my neighbors. Like, the internet has done some wonderful...

I know it’s funny to post our parents and grandparents gaffs on social media, but listen – I give them major props for trying to figure out the technical and social aspects of the internet at all. I’m a late GenXer, and as someone who grew up both without the internet and with the internet,...

In America, kids become familiar with the Pledge of Allegiance from a pretty young age. They recite it in school, and even though that becomes less frequent (and is always optional), it’s not really something American children can avoid. We also don’t talk much about it, aside from what the actual words mean. We don’t...

There is so, so much about American history that they don’t teach us in school, and to be honest, the more I learn, the more I think they’ve definitely left out the best parts. Or at least, the most interesting ones. One of the areas where education is sorely lacking is pretty much anything revolving...

We’re all over our jobs sometimes, right? There are days when it’s great (hopefully), a bunch more when it’s tolerable and you’re happy to have it, and then there are days when you wish more than anything you could walk out the door and never look back. If you’re having any of the feelings except...

To be fair, who isn’t obsessed with Dan Levy these days? His father Eugene might have been pulling the money strings behind Schitt’s Creek (while also masterfully playing the straight man on the show), but it was Dan Levy’s portrayal of the neurotic, lovable, hilarious David Rose that had us all tumbling head over heels for the quirky...

If you think of Dracula as the origin of the modern vampire story in Western literature, well, you might be stunned and also amazed to learn that Bram Stoker, in this instance, needs to take two steps back. Though it has been more than a hundred years since Stoker meticulously researched and penned Dracula, there was, in fact,...

For decades, an argument has been cropping up that Columbus was likely not the first European to make it to the Americas. People believed the Icelandic sagas that spoke of Vikings landing on land green, and lush, and full of grapes, and thought they must have been talking about Canada, but perhaps they’d even landed...

The truth is out there, my friends. You know it, I know it, and whether or not the Air Force wants to admit it, they know it, too. They just don’t want to admit it, which is why they refuse to acknowledge the unidentified plane that flew over California recently. And fine, it’s probably not...

Everyone loves maps. I mean, not as much as they love cats, dogs, and mocking Instagram influencers, but still – it’s a lot. I think after checking out the Facebook page Terrible Maps, though, that bad maps might be better than awesome maps (though they are both, of course, better than no maps at all)....

Religion is a fine thing, and it gives people around the world peace and hope and it helps them make sense of you know…all of this crap. That said, whatever those preachers with the big churches, big cars, big houses, and tons of cash are, it’s not religious, or holy, or any sort of devout....

Everyone loves “The Child,” and everyone loves hot cocoa (right?) so how on earth could a product that combines those two things ever miss? I have no idea, and I doubt we’ll be finding out anytime soon, either. Because here is something that we never knew we needed, but we’ll all inevitably want. Baby Yoda...

You probably know by now that there is literally a Guinness World Record for pretty much anything you can think of; if you have a thing and are committed enough to do it bigger and better than anyone else in the world (because there are always a few weirdos just like you), you could find...