Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

Most of us like to think that we know our rights when it comes to police investigations and the like. We know we don’t have to talk without a lawyer, and we know that we can refuse things like searching our vehicles and breathalyzers in the field. Do you know what happens after you assert your...

Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” To me, this means that no matter what life throws at you, you have to remember that the future is where...

There are all kinds of reality television shows out there – something for everyone, and most of us have at least one guilty pleasure. Why not, then, have a show where rich people tried to live on what’s being proposed as a minimum wage? It’s bound to be funny, and you never know – they...

For many people, the body positive movement has been a godsend. For too long, society in general – and some professions, like the medical field, specifically – have made it really, really hard to be happy living as someone perceived as being “overweight.” This questioner wants to know why we’re more focused on making fat...

There is actually no shortage of scientific facts that creep me the heck out – the natural world is full of endless weirdness that can really unsettle a person when you stop and think about it for too long. If that seems like something you’d be into today, have we got a list for you...

I know that this is the day and age of the cell phone, so maybe people think it’s not as important to always be prepared as it once was. That said, the Gen Xer in me thinks that you could have to improvise, still – your phone could be dead, the people you call might...

Reddit tends to be one of those places where people go to hear all of the wild and tragic tales – the stuff that drops your jaw, but not in a good way at all. It’s nice to balance that out sometimes with the happy stories, and I think we’ve got some good ones for...

People throw away all kinds of things, for reasons that only they can possibly know. Some of them are treasures no matter who you are. Some things are treasures to certain people, trash to others. Some things are just plain trash, and a very few are horrors that literally no one wants to see. These...

Relationships are complicated. More than that, relationships are personal, which means no two look or operate in exactly the same way. What works for one couple might not even be something another couple considers, but as long as everyone is happy, that’s all that matters. That said, there are some mistakes that seem to raise...

There are some countries in the world that a majority of people would say they would love to visit – Italy, France, England, China, Ireland, Australia… My list actually goes on and on, because there’s hardly anywhere I wouldn’t like to go if I had the chance! Some (or all) of these beloved countries have...

Since people’s names and faces flow right in one side of my brain and out the other, I don’t think I’m a “super-recognizer” of faces (or anything else), but according to scientists who study this phenomenon, around 1% of the population can honestly say that they never forget a face. In 2009, a team of...

Of all the sayings in the world, the one that goes “you get what you pay for” seems to generally hold up across the board. Some things we don’t mind buying as knockoffs, because maybe we don’t expect them to last long to begin with or they’re a fad that’s probably going to go out...

It’s a sad truth about the world that there are many places that just aren’t safe for anyone to travel alone, whether you’re a woman or not. There are even more spots, though, where the culture or lifestyles make traversing the streets as a woman by herself a definite no go. That’s not true of...

I think it’s interesting to get a peek behind the curtain of other people’s lives, and even more so when it’s an aspect of living that I’ll never experience for myself. Don’t get me wrong; I’m glad I can see a full range of colors. That said, it’s fascinating to hear what it’s like to not...

As an author, I read true stories all the time that I think I could never use in a book because readers would roll their eyes and call it unbelievable. It must be frustrating to be the owner of one of those stories and never be able to tell them without people thinking you’re a liar,...