Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

Dogs. Feet. The eggs you had for breakfast, the teenagers who just won’t move out. There are hundreds of reasons our houses might not smell their freshest on any given day, or in any given season, but the truth of the matter is, you likely won’t smell it if you live there. But listen…at least...

I don’t think many of us really appreciated all of the ways being able to hop on an airplane to anywhere in the world impacted our lives before the mess of 2020 happened. Now, travel is scary, and cramming yourself into a space where it’s impossible to social distance (and where some people still refuse...

In some ways, maybe it’s better to learn right away whether or not your new job is the right one for you. In other ways, it’s got to be pretty embarrassing and other things, too, to end up getting canned before HR even manages to process your paperwork. That’s just what happened to these 14...

If you ask me, the 80s were just about 20 years ago. Don’t you dare try to tell me again that they were 40 years ago, but if that were true, I suppose that would explain just has much has changed in the interim – like these 16 things people used to do every day,...

Looking back, there are quite a few things that we did in the 80s and 90s that would drop people’s jaws – I mean, the amount of hairspray we shot into the ozone alone is enough to terrorize a modern day, eco-conscious teen. If nostalgia is your bag, these 17 recollections of what was totally...

This question, posed to Askreddit, is a loaded one: “what would you need to be happy?” There are so many different definitions of happy, so many ways to get there, and so many things that can steer you right off course, if you’re not careful. These 21 people attempted answers, though, and it’s worth reading...

There’s no way to go through life and not feel blue once in a while, unless you’re some kind of pod person, or in total denial of your human emotions. Even though it happens to everyone, and sometimes it’s okay to just sit with it for awhile, eventually we search for ways to bring the...

There are jobs we love, jobs we hate, and honestly, money only has a little bit to do with what separates one from the other. If you’re looking for an amazing job, income be darned, you might want to give these 16 a closer look. 16. Well I love all of this. Shift Manager at...

We all went through years of school and learned what we could, but the farther we get from that, the less that seems to come back to us. Or maybe it never stuck. Maybe your teacher couldn’t get through to you, or you weren’t in the right space to learn. Whatever the reason you’re not...

For some people, writing essays is a breeze. I am one of those people, who would have chosen an empty blue book and an essay test every day over anything multiple choice, and certainly anything that had to do with numbers. Other people are the opposite, and you know what, it takes all types. If...

I don’t know about you, but I love learning little behind-the-scenes secrets about all kinds of jobs and elements of society that are foreign to me. And I mean, combine that with zoos and zoo animals, and I feel like we’ve got a winner with this one! If you’re curious what goes on behind the...

Most everyone has an opinion on whether they’d rather live in a big city or a small town. We like the convenience, the hustle and bustle, or they crave the solitude and the quiet, and you’ll never convince me that the suburbs are somehow meant to be a combination of both. There are small towns,...

Cat lovers, listen up – scientists have more proof that your affinities may stretch back thousands of years into human history around the globe. The Nazca lines are a collection of huge drawings etched into the Nazca desert, located in Peru. The drawings were done between 500 BCE and 500 CE by carving depressions into...

It seems like there are some historical cultures that have fascinated a bulk of human beings since we started studying history. The Macedonians, the Romans, the Huns, the Mayans, pirates of all sorts, and, of course, the Vikings. If we believe Hollywood, they were all fair-haired and fierce, born with swords in their hands, they...

One of the most fascinating angles science has recently taken is following the idea that trauma can be handed down through one’s genetics. It could explain so much about how the grandchildren of Holocaust survivors seem to have actual memories of their time in concentration camps, and the legacy of slavery in the United States....