Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

There hasn’t been a whole lot of good to come out of this whole COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown. We’re stuck at home with our families, we’re still trying to work, we’re washing our hands so much our skin is cracking, we’re worried about our parents and our friends with crappy immune systems and how we’re...

You might have heard that there’s been a run on hand sanitizer during this dark time of pandemic hoarding. It’s pretty much impossible to find anywhere, and bleach is in short supply, too. The good news is that the ingredients to make your own sanitizer should still be easy to find, and as DIY projects...

Most of the countries have, to varying degrees, been behind the 8-ball when it comes to forming a country-wide response to COVID-19. China, of course, was first and scrambled (fairly efficiently) to catch up. Countries like Iran and Italy are still struggling to resurface after finding themselves under water, and I don’t think we yet...

If there’s one thing I’ve learned for sure as I’ve aged, it’s that I just have no room in my life for people who don’t show me with their actions that they deserve to be there. And people who are clinically unable to be your friend definitely shouldn’t have a place in your world. Narcissists...

Most of us look forward to being able to get several solid hours of sack time (or fantasize about it, if you have little kids and realize it’s just not going to happen). If you’re someone who has more ideas than hours in the day (or years in your life), though, sleep can start to...

These days it might seem like the ocean and human beings have nothing in common, but this 230-foot sea organ in Croatia proves that if we work together with the elements, there’s still beauty to be found. https://www.instagram.com/p/BgqLxWpgUJL/ The organ uses the energy of both the wind and the waters of the Adriatic sea to...

I know that I’m in the minority here, but as far as I’m concerned, monkeys in general can just keep their distance. I think it was reading ‘The Hot Zone’ that led me to this conclusion – and that’s also the reason I refer loudly to all monkeys as “Ebola Monkeys” at the zoo. But...

“Soon you will not have a choice, so do what you can now.” Those are the ominous words from a woman living in Bergamo, Italy, the epicenter of the coronavirus in that country. Cristina Higgins penned a letter to residents of the United States about what measures she thinks we should be taking seriously now,...

SARS and MERS are two other coronaviruses that have jumped from animals to humans in the past several decades, so it stands to reason that doctors and researchers should be able to learn something about COVID-19 from the similar viruses that came before them, right? It’s true, and while the three are distinctly different beasts,...

At the time I’m writing this article, the United States is not on an official lockdown on quarantine, but many people – and businesses – are taking the recommendation to socially distance themselves seriously. That means we’re at home, probably with our kids and maybe our spouse, trying to get work done amidst the chaos....

Coronavirus, or COVID-19, is making its way around the world. Some countries, like China and Iran, seem to be on the downward side of the hill while countries like Italy, France, and Germany are sitting squarely in the middle. For places like the United Kingdom and the United States, there seems to still be time,...

Some of us might be confused as to why the shelves are empty a random household staple like toilet paper. The coronavirus, or COVID-19, doesn’t typically cause any kind of intestinal distress, and I’m guessing the majority of households were already buying toilet paper in bulk. So why, then, are so many people hoarding toilet...

As you may have heard, a good portion of the human race is, for some reason, responding to a health crisis by buying a sh*t ton of toilet paper. Just for the record COVID-19 does not, in the vast majority of cases, cause intestinal distress. The women behind me at the Aldi check out #toiletpaper...

So, you read that title right? Pretty shocking. Here’s what’s even more shocking…. since women account for right around 50% of the population, this means a good portion of women are biased against their own sex. Messed up, right? While there are women in the highest leadership roles around the world, there are other places...

Now that a novel virus is sweeping the globe, killing vulnerable people in numbers that are looking more and more concerning, people are realizing (among other things) how well we don’t regularly clean our stuff. You know, stuff like that thing we put right next to our face about 100 times a day. Now that...