Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

Listen, I love trees. I’m a tree hugger, I guess, but not in the sense that I go around chaining myself to them in order to stop people cutting them down. I mean, I would, if I was fond of said tree and the people had no good reason, I suppose. Trees are like sentinels....

Truth is stranger than fiction, and that definitely extends to history. If you’re reading the right sort of books, you’ll find that our collective past is peppered with characters that seem larger than life, even though they and their amazing antics are totally real. Basically, these are people whose stories you definitely need in your...

As a woman who falls somewhere (ahem) into this category of people in their 30s and 40s, and who is currently and always struggling with some sort of lower back pain, I am very interested to hear how people my age have avoided this scourge on middle age. If you’re looking for ways to improve...

The short answer is no, they’re not. if you’re looking for more in depth information as to how they differ and how that means they can be used in manners that are not interchangeable, keep reading! I’m going to, and not just because I’m writing this article, but because I’m making mojitos tonight and want...

If you’re like me, the sight of a sink full of dirty dishes fills you with annoyance and dread. With everyone home so much more, our dishes and laundry have like, tripled, which means that boring little chore is rearing its head more frequently than ever. The only good thing about it, if you ask...

The more we learn about the human brain, the more psychology and genetic mapping point to the fact that people could have a predisposition to certain behaviors. We know this is true when it comes to addiction, but now, science is also saying that a tendency to cheat (or not) on a romantic partner could...

There are some cases that pop up on the subreddit Am I The A**hole that aren’t exactly cut and dried, but as someone who has read many of these posts, well…the ones where men try to tell pregnant or nursing women to do pretty much anything never usually work out too well for the OP...

Weddings cost a lot of money, they involve a lot of emotion, and yes, people (especially brides) can get a bit caught up in the drama and romance and forget what the day is all about. That said, I can’t remember ever hearing about someone cutting out a friend because of an incident when they...

There’s a good chance that, even if you haven’t seen Tiger King on Netflix, you’ve heard enough about it to at least garner the basics. To recap, though, Carole Baskin owns a big cat rescue in Florida, and she is the sworn enemy of Oklahoman big cat breeder Joe Exotic. In the documentary series, much was...

I would venture to say that every human being has, at some point in their life, pretended to be asleep when they weren’t. There are all sorts of reasons one might engage in this small deception – your parents think you’re asleep, you’re trying to get your kid to sleep, you don’t want to have...

Nursing is one of those thankless professions that it mostly filled by people who truly feel called to the job – why else, honestly, would you deal with the public day in and day out – and not only that, but deal with things that come out of the public day in and day out? As with...

Riddles can help keep your wits sharp, and whether you’re eight or eighty, that’s never a bad thing. So, if you love teasing your brain and testing your smarts every day, why not share that passion with your kids? If you’re up for doing just that, here are 8 riddles you can try solving together....

People tend to forget about Generation X. We’re nestled between the Baby Boomers, who hate everyone and everything and are sure that young people are ruining the world, and Millennials – the world’s scapegoat. And listen, we kind of like it that way. We were a generation of latchkey kids, and if there’s one thing...

There’s little that can take a person’s breath away like the moment they realize they done something horribly, monumentally wrong at work. It might have been an accident, it might have been negligence, but you know it’s your fault and you’re probably going to pay with your job. These 15 people had that moment, but it...

Escape rooms have become all the rage for friend gatherings, group dates, bachelor parties, work events, you name it. You put a group of people in a room and give them a series of clues that have to be solved in order to “escape” within a certain amount of time – some are easy, some...