Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

More and more people in America are realizing what marginalized members of our communities have known for years – if you get pulled over by a police officer, there’s a decent chance that he won’t be one of the “good guys.” When we’re kids, we’re raised to believe the police are helpful, that we should...

People of color, women, LGBTQ folks, and anyone that exists as part of a marginalized group has known since forever that representation matters. If little girls can’t imagine themselves as physicists, if little black boys can’t see themselves as physicians, if little gay children don’t see that it’s perfectly fine to live their truest life,...

The first time I really heard how touching your face was the best way to get sick around other people, I was in a movie theater watching Contagion (starring Kate Winslet and Matt Damon). Kate Winslet’s character works for the CDC and spouts off some statistic about how many times per day the average person touches their...

So, I know it’s cool to think that we’re not alone and the truth is really out there and all of that, and it’s true that our galaxy contains the closest planets to Earth in the whole of the universe, but listen…it’s still really, really freaking big. Sure, I’m as excited as the next person...

If you’ve got kids, then you know what a fun hit the bubble gun has been in recent years. And sure, they can’t seem to make one that lasts longer than a week or two before going in the trash, but hey – they cost less than $5 a pop, so you get what you...

One of the side effects of this strange and beautiful, but deeply flawed country is that so much history has been left out of the books most of us read during K-12. For instance, until recently, there were far too many people who had never heard of, or never learned in depth about, the annihilation...

Relationships are hard, and sometimes the ones with family are even more complicated than the romantic or friendship-types you choose on your own. It’s tougher to call it quits with family, honestly, because there are all kinds of complicated feelings that go along with the people who are supposed to love and protect you choosing...

We are living in a dystopian nightmare. There’s no point in arguing about it, either – between the murder hornets, climate change, and the literal plague (among way too many other things), we are definitely not living in the best of times. They are interesting times, though, so there’s that. If you’re looking to wallow...

There are so many weird people out there, and so many resulting oddities on Cragislist, that you have to be pretty stinking strange to end up on a list of the absolute weirdest. And yet here we are, my friends, with these 17 delightfully weird ads. You’re welcome. 17. I don’t have anything nice to...

Here’s the thing. If you’ve always had jarred spaghetti sauce, there’s a good chance you think it’s pretty darn good. I grew up thinking all sauce came from a jar – both of my parents worked, so no one was simmering homemade spaghetti sauce for hours between getting home and putting kids in the bath,...

You may have read a recent piece or two about how people in Japan aren’ having sex. They’re not interested, the birth rate is suffering, and sociologists aren’t exactly sure why, how to fix it, or if they should. It turns out that, per recent data, the trend toward a disinterest in having sex is...

One of the hardest realizations of most of our adults lives is realizing that we have to feed ourselves (and our kids) three meals a day, every day, for the rest of our lives. It inevitably leads to more than one night a week when you’re tired of everything you make, you don’t feel like...

We all make mistakes, every single day. They run the gamut as far as big, small, consequences, minor or major annoyances, and we’ve all figured out how to deal with them in our own way. There’s no arguing that these 16 mistakes would have been a pretty huge deal, though…if these people had gotten caught....

It makes total sense to me that there are hundreds of thousands of little things about the natural world that we don’t understand, can’t know, and may never be aware of, but that doesn’t mean the facts don’t blow my mind when they do come to light. And while it’s hard to imagine what science...

The world of parents who are overwhelmed by their toddlers being, well, toddlers, and who have to call in help to manage their little heathens, is something of a mystery. In America those shows enjoyed a brief flare of popularity that soon died…probably because we just went back to letting our kids do whatever they...