Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

Listen, anyone who works face-to-face with the public is bound to learn a thing or two about people, whether they’re trying to or not. Some of it is amusing, some of it is profound, some of it isn’t memorable at all, but here’s the thing – we could all use a little more insight into...

Books are sacred. It’s impossible to throw them out – what if you want to re-read them? What if you want to stare at the cover and remember the feeling it gave you the first time you cracked it open? What if you want to share it with your kids some day? What if you...

Listen, divorce is no picnic. Divorce when there are kids involved is even harder – I was a stepmother once upon a time, from when a boy was three until he was around twelve, and it was very hard to know what the right thing was to do when exiting his father’s life. I’m not...

Listen, if you’re not someone who loves books and loves to read, you may be fine with what you’re about to see. It may not bother you one bit to see books in states such as these, I don’t know. What I do know, as someone who drinks books like water, is that every last one...

Many people enjoy a good book now and then – on vacation, when they’re waiting in line at the DMV – but other people live for books. They prefer them to Netflix, and if they’ve got a spare 10 minutes, they’d rather read than scroll through social media. They’re a quiet but passionate lot, and...

First up, let me say that I am not judging any of these people. I have found ancient food in my fridge, my freezer, and in one unforgettable moment, a potato that had fallen behind a cabinet and was no longer recognizable (except for the stench). That is how I know, with 100% certainty, that...

English is one of the hardest languages for non-native speakers to learn, and if you don’t believe me, consider how poorly a vast majority of native English speakers understand their own language. There are as many ways to break rules as there are rules, and really, most of them are arbitrary and make little sense...

There are people who are famous forever, like John Wilkes Booth or Julius Caesar, people who are famous in their time, like Julia Roberts or Zac Efron, and people who are mostly normal, but have a minute where they’re totally hot sh*t. Then there are the rest of us, who will never be famous, not...

We all have extra time on our hands these days, and you know, sometimes the mind wanders. We wonder things we might not have paused long enough to wonder when we were busy, and that applies to kids as well as adults. Proof? This 8-year-old girl who wrote an entire (excellent) song musing about what’s...

Retellings aren’t just classic novels being re-written or even just updated to reflect modern times. When done well, movies like Clueless (a retelling of Emma) and 10 Things I Hate About You (a retelling of The Taming of the Shrew) become classics in their own right. These 10 authors are hoping that their young adult novels bring something new to the conversation,...

Leslie Nielson, who was a smash hit with audiences from the first moment he appeared onscreen in Airplane!, cracked us all up as he starred as police detective Frank Drebin. An inept police officer who uncovers an assassination plot against the Queen, he bumbled his way through love (and starring alongside O.J. Simpson). Whether you’re a megafan...

Listen, I’m here to admit that there have been many mornings where I’ve stared at my cereal box and wondered whether or not the Lucky Charms leprechaun, the Trix bunny, et al have real names or whether they’re forever destined to care only about cereal. If you’ve had these and similar musings, well, wonder no...

English is such a rogue language, it’s no surprise that people from America and Great Britain favor it. We’ve stole so many elements of our cultures that it’s impossible to keep track, so it seems somewhat fitting that our language, too, has pilfered rules at random from so many others. If you don’t believe me,...

It was possible to embarrass oneself back in the good old days. In person, you know – you might bump into a “someone” on the street and have an awkward interaction, in which you proved you had zero clue who you’d run into, but that was it. Over. The only people to witness your embarrassment...

Cleaning out an area of one’s house that hasn’t been purged in a while always comes with some sort of discovery. It could be nostalgic, it could be smelly, it could be something you’d given up looking for months or years before…but cleaning out one’s freezer is always particularly harrowing. There’s always something lurking at...