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Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

Why More and More Men Are Painting Their Nails

If you see a man on the street with painted toes and fingernails and assume that he’s either a) got a young daughter or b) is somehow living outside the mainstream of masculinity, well, be prepared to change your assumptions, my friend. The menicure is here, and it looks like it’s gonna stay. https://www.instagram.com/p/B4TDye3gq2F/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading Fashion...

This Vocabulary Wheel Helps You Find the Perfect Word for Your Feelings

No matter your age, it can sometimes be so hard to find the right word to describe exactly how you’re feeling. As you get older (I’m finding) things like, well, being old – but also sleep deprivation and having a million things on your mind – make plucking that one word you know but can’t...

How Horror Movies Help Some People Ease Their Anxiety

It might seen counterintuitive that a genre of film meant to ramp up and maintain the viewer’s anxiety (if well-executed) could in any way benefit someone who is already struggling to control theirs, but hear me out. Or, hear out Hayley Williams, who suffers from anxiety but has been self-medicating with horror films for years....

Man Uses Pie To Explain America’s Wealth Inequality Problem

Some concepts can be harder to grasp than others, and when it comes to big ones like wealth inequality, well, they can be tougher to wrap your mind around than most – sometimes because we don’t like what we hear when we do. And if you’re sitting there thinking, “Sure, okay, but pie makes everything...

18 People Share the Biggest Issue They Have with Their Name

Most parents try their hardest when picking out a name for their baby. They want the name to mean something, but not be so weird that it makes their baby’s life harder for years to come. They try to consider initials and nicknames and just generally to do right by their kid – it’s a...

Little Bowie Is Instagram’s New Favorite Cat

Internet fame can be fleeting, especially if you’re a cat. The online world loves cats, and we’re always ready to embrace another adorable, unique, funny kitty when they leap insistently onto the screen, but there are just so many of them! That said, when you’re as funky and cool as this cat – right down...

People Believe Corona Beer Has Something to Do With The Coronavirus

Yes, we’re talking about the Mexican-style beer Corona. With a lime or without, I couldn’t say, but I can promise you here and now that alcohol makes viruses and other icky junk disappear, not the other way around. In general, I mean, not as a treatment protocol – don’t drink beer if you feel sick....

14 People Share Why Atheism Is Right for Them

Not believing in a god or a higher power can be hard to conceive for the true believers among us, but the fact is that some people choose not to ascribe to any religion at all. Or even believe that any god exists. If you want to understand why they feel this is the right...

15 Interesting Facts That Might Be New to You

It should come as no surprise that we love a good fact, and that goes double whenever we can find a great one that many people don’t already know. And while a few of these 15 might be familiar to you, we’re betting that at least a few of these interesting facts will be new...

15 Things People Who Are Obsessed With Shopping At Target Understand

It’s hard to believe there could be people out there who have never been to a Target, but I’m sure they exist. And if you somehow happen to be one of them, well, the pictures on this list aren’t going to make a whole lot of sense to you. For the rest of us, these...

One Guy Who Is Vegan Is Suing Burger King Over Impossible Whopper, But Not Everyone In The Community Agrees

You’ve probably noticed that more than a couple of fast food stores are starting to offer plant-based alternatives to their typical burger and chicken menus. It seems nice, like a way to bring back customers who have embraced diets sans meat, but at least one vegan isn’t happen with Burger King’s “Impossible Whopper.” In case...

China Plans to Ban Single-Use Plastic Bags in Every Major City by the End of 2020

It’s not just a new year, it’s a new decade – and China, for one, doesn’t plan to end it as a top contributor to the world’s pollution problem. At least, not when it comes to single-use plastic bags. They plan to include plastic plates, cutlery, and straws in the ban as well.   View...

What to Do When Your Travel Partner Doesn’t Have TSA Pre Check

If you travel regularly and haven’t applied for TSA Pre Check, I mean…what are you even doing with your life? The lines are shorter, you don’t have to take off your shoes or remove your laptop from your bag – it’s basically a throwback to the blissful old days when no one was actually worried...

High School Senior, Promised a College Scholarship Back in Kindergarten, Told She Can’t Have It

College affordability haunts the minds of parents (and kids) everywhere, pretty much from the time the little ones are born until they finally (hopefully) graduate with a degree. Costs have soared to the point where many cannot afford it, at least not without taking on obscene loads of student debt – so you can see...

Company Tells Worker He Needs to Buy a New Car Because His Current One “Just Looks Bad”

Employers everywhere seem to have a bit of an issue staying out of their employees’ business these days – or at the very least, they’re struggling to find the appropriate line between work and personal life. Which is, I think, what’s happened here, when a company’s HR department issued an official notice to an employee...