Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

Here we are, answering the most pressing, most important questions in this life. Like, for instance, when you tell someone you have a “buttload” of something, how do you know whether or not you’re being entirely accurate? Maybe you don’t have a buttload at all. Maybe you have a f*ck ton, or a sh%t ton,...

Building a gingerbread house with your kids at the holidays is part of many a family tradition – and that even considering that gingerbread isn’t that great to start with, and after it sits out for a few weeks (covered in gumdrops, for cripe’s sake), it’s all but inedible. Now, imagine if you will, a...

If you’ve ever owned a dog, you know one thing for sure – they love a good belly rub. They don’t have to be in the mood or anything, because they’re always in the mood for any affection you’re willing to give them, and the belly rub is basically the holy grail. If you’ve ever...

Halloween is a favorite for many people, and for lots of different reasons. Kids love the costumes and the candy, and adults love the fact that the hot summer weather has receded to make room for cooler fall nights and sweata weatha. Parents, though, have some worries when it comes to the holiday – whether...

The cool thing about science, and archaeology in particular, is that just when we think we know everything about our human (and human-ish) ancestors, we uncover something new. Kind of like a never ending Easter egg hunt, and who doesn’t love that? For a long time, we’ve sort of defined human evolution by our ability...

If you think librarians are heroes now (which, who doesn’t?), wait until you hear about the women who saddled up horses in the early morning and set out to deliver books to Kentucky’s isolated mountain communities. Talk about commitment to making sure everyone had reading material, right? The “book women” of The Pack Horse Library...

If everything goes “right” in your life, as far as the natural order of things, you know you will one day have to bury your parents. We know this, we accept it, but until the day it happens to you, you never know what it’s actually going to feel like to exist in a world...

If you’d like to feel particularly ancient today, how about this – the newest historical American girl doll, Molly, is from the 1980s. Yeah. I am history. It’s not like most of us GenXers (and older Millennials) didn’t already know that our time had come and gone, but I mean…I didn’t really consider myself ready...

Sure, your razor blade can cut your hair, but only so many times before it gets dull and you have to throw it away, right? If you’re like me, you might have figured this was due to the blade just getting wet and rusty, but guess what? Your hair is actually dulling that steel razor...

You might have thought that Justice Ginsburg was just a stylish lady, and enjoyed standing out from her mostly-male coworkers on the bench with her bright white, decorative collars. Or maybe you assumed she had her reasons, figured they had nothing to do with vanity, but have never remembered to sit and Google the meaning...

The internet loves its trends, and one of the more fun ones recently is people describing how old they are with a picture or a written statement about their life that just totally gives it away. These 10 posts definitely get the job done, as I could definitely pinpoint a person’s age to within the...

The whole “Sir, this is a Wendy’s” moment has become something of a meme these days. It can be applied to any clueless person, in any situation, whose expectations do not coincide with where they are currently standing in life. But for fast food employees, those moments are all too real – and they happen...

If you’ve ever worked at a fast food restaurant, or the equivalent of a fast food restaurant in another industry, then you know exactly what I’m talking about – those customers who ask you something and you just stare at them until you can make your mouth form the words, “Sir, this is a Wendy’s.”...

You’ve never known true annoyance in life until you’ve had to deal with fruit flies swarming your basket of lovely summer fruit on the counter. You’ve never wanted to throw up in your kitchen until you’ve found fruit fly maggots on a bowl of cherry tomatoes you forgot existed. I hear. There are all sorts...

Most people have this idea that Vikings were all giants with blond hair, blue eyes, and a thirst for raiding and pillaging foreign lands before returning how to bask in the icy, Nordic cold. And while the latter may still turn out to be true, a new study is pretty much proving the homogenous physical...