Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

If you’re like me, you have limited experience with anesthesia – and that’s exactly how you like it. I’ve only had to do it a few times and every one made me so nervous, because what if I just never woke up? I think that understanding what goes on biologically during the process might go...

Teachers, like parents, would like to laugh at the kids in their care far more often than it’s actually appropriate to laugh at the kids in their care. Parents, you know what I mean, right? Your kid busts out with something hilarious, but you’re supposed to be the mature adult and correct them instead of...

I know the locker room is supposed to be sacred space for athletes. They’re supposed to be able to break down, vent, celebrate, and never worry that anyone is going to blab about it later. That said, this is the internet, and everything is anonymous, right? So let’s go ahead and enjoy these 17 locker...

It’s amazing, really, how far we can let things go before we wake up and realize that we’re in a situation that’s not letting us live our best lives. We know we deserve love and respect, but I guess we forget, or we can’t see the forest for the trees. These 14 people are describing...

If you’ve been friends with someone for a long time (or they’re family), then you likely know how likely they are to embellish (or totally fabricate) their stories. Are they people who always stick to the facts, or are they typically full of at least a little bs? Regardless of what kind of people these...

There are a lot of great memes out there, but most of them are a flash in a pan. They come and go after giving us a few good laughs, never to be used on a regular basis again. There are some memes, though, that never stop – and we’re not sorry, because they’re flat-out...

If you’re a history nerd like I am, then I don’t have to tell you how fascinating it is to think closely about not only time gone by, but the existential reality that, eventually, no one will exist who remembers us at all. These 12 things are physical examples of how time wears everything down...

I’ve never been adopted or abandoned by a parent, but I’m married to someone who was, and I can testify to the fact that their feelings around the entire matter – no matter how young they were when it happened or how healthily they dealt with those feelings – are complicated. This woman was abandoned...

Parenting is fraught with invisible land mines that most of us barely avoid touching some days – and there are plenty of days when we blow everything up, too. Lately, most of us have been keen to help especially our daughters avoid being shamed for their weight, body type, or any other appearance-related pitfall –...

There can be no doubt that there are plenty of things about today’s world that are not the best. The violence, the wars, the weather, the politics, (the covid) – take your pick. Of course, people have had cause to complain no matter where in history they lived, but that doesn’t make the issues we experience...

People have varying pain tolerances, so there’s a good chance that what you find to be unbearable, someone down the street could handle with barely a wince. That said, there are some experiences that rock the human body no matter who is in charge of it and how tough they are when it comes to...

We all know that weddings can be an emotionally precarious time for everyone involved. Whether you’re the bride, the groom, the parents, or part of the bridal party, people can get completely caught up in the moment to the point where they lose perspective. That could be what’s happening here, in the case of a...

Family dynamics can be complicated, and that is even more true when a family is blended or otherwise knitted together differently from the way it began. Stepparents, new siblings, you name it – it all makes navigating life at home a bit more of a challenge. This woman is no longer a child (24F), but...

Weddings are stressful, and part of the thing that makes them that way is the coming together of two different families. Every family does this differently, has their own unique way of interacting, and the new person coming in has to figure out how to roll with the punches. That said, when those punches are...

We all know that when we take a new job, we never know exactly what sort of boss we’re going to get. Will the micromanage us? Give us space to do our jobs and feel like part of the team? Or will they be the absolute worst, and make your life a living hell until...