Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

If the coronavirus has taught us anything, it’s that Americans are totally obsessed with our paper products – a fact we should have already known, given that we produce more unrecyclable trash (per person) than any developed country in the world. And paper towels? Americans spend around $5.7 billion annually on them, and most people...

History is super fun, y’all, and I maintain that if you don’t agree it’s just because you haven’t been told the right stories. Stories like this one, about a man who sold catnip door-to-door and made unintentional friends with every feline within a ten-block radius (maybe more) and earning an arrest for inciting a (cat)...

Everyone loves shopping at Costco. They have everything you need, and lots of it. There are samples. They have delicious produce and meats, and you always feel like you’ve gotten a great deal (even if you have no idea where you’re going to put it when you get home. It makes sense, then, that we’re...

Not only faster, but more efficiently – which is important, because we all know how easy it is to get behind, watch your messages pile up, and lose all hope of ever being able to tackle it. Take heart, though! Gmail itself has some features you may not know about that could increase your productivity...

I didn’t have dogs growing up. We had cats (4 of them over the 20-odd years I lived at home) and some of them were great. Others were those other sort of cat, but whatever the reason, my parents never gave into our begging for a puppy. When I was 22, my then-fiancee and I...

There are parents everywhere who are helping their kids with schoolwork (or doing the teaching at home) now that school is out for the foreseeable future. And while there are many different kinds of frustration at the situation, one of the funniest – and most annoying – is how we’re all learning just how much...

If you have any imagination at all, looking at chef Matteo Stucchi’s breathtaking desserts will leave you wondering whether you’re staring down at a whole, tiny world, with small people hidden away beneath the buttercream and colorful art. Like maybe we’re Horton the Elephant, and there are little Whos living in these amazingly crafted worlds....

You never know exactly what you’re going to get when you adopt a cat (or any animal, for that matter). You can try to gauge personality, and you can ask the shelter or foster for their advice, but true personalities never really emerge until everyone gets comfortable. Rich and Emma, the now-parents of Ikiru the...

English is a super hard language to master – whether it’s your native tongue or a second (or third) language, chances are you still make plenty of mistakes. We don’t remember everything from school, all of the rules and the ways it breaks those rules, and of course, there are regional quirks that make our...

The whole of human history is too much for any one person to memorize or learn, and most of us only get to study it for a handful of semesters out of our entire academic careers. It’s understandable that we won’t have time to learn everything, but some things seem as if they might have...

To be fair, there are only so many things teachers can get into during a school year, so unless you decided to dedicate yourself to the study of history, there are a great many things you’ll never hear about unless you stumble across them on accident. Even if you do decide to dedicate your life...

There are always days when you’re looking for the best ways to pass some time – and improving your logic skills has to be one of the better investments of your free time! If you agree, we’ve got 6 twisty riddles that will pair perfectly with your morning cup to get those brain juices flowing!...

It’s a world gone mad, and unsurprisingly (truly), the arts are the thing that’s making everything bearable. People are giving their gifts to the world for free, streaming them online, and we’re eating it up like we need it to live. Which, honestly, I think we do. Broadway, like every other place where hundreds of...

Some of us will be lucky enough to live a life that’s totally devoid of creeps and creepy moments that make you feel like you barely escaped with your life. But most people have at least one memory that sends chills down their spine every time it crops up – and I’m not sure how...

Memes are one of my favorite things on the internet, and history is one of my favorite things in life. Anything that brings the two together brilliantly is a winner in my book, so you know I love these 12 spot-on and hilarious memes. If you’re on the same page, take a gander. I don’t...