Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

One of the most fun thing about having kids is getting to share the things we love with them – and if you love solving riddles and brainteasers, chances are you’re always on the lookout for some you can solve with your young’uns. If that’s the case, we’ve got ’em – we think the six...

I think there are two types of people in the world – those who get slighted and shrug, moving on and figuring that they were better off, and those who get slighted and spend time devising sweet, sweet revenge. This gamer, who was unjustly killed in the game within in days of joining the first...

For some reason, people have this idea that all, or at least most, past humans were super prim, proper, and conservative. Though this isn’t true, so many people believe it’s true that authors, filmmakers, and artists of all sorts are basically unable to write the truth because what’s real would generally read as anachronous to the average...

Here’s something I didn’t know until today – there’s a whole category of booze known as “sunken scotch,” and it’s all been recovered from the cargo holds of wrecked ships. Pretty cool, you have to admit, and the prices these casks and flasks fetch at auction is no joke. The latest find, which was dredged...

WARNING: Hey all, fair warning… there’s discussion of racism and really, really disturbing racist terms. So proceed with caution. Okay, deep breath… If you’re like me, you’ve probably never thought too hard about why the ice cream truck rolling through your neighborhood plays that familiar, jaunty tune to call all the kids out into the...

If you know anything about the Middle Ages, medieval warfare, or just life during that time in general, then the fact that they came up with some truly insane weapons probably won’t surprise you. It’s hard to blame them, I guess, because the Middle Ages were not the best time in history to be alive....

There are so many things about life that we can’t know until we know, until there’s more perspective and experience under our belts. If you’re someone whose younger, perhaps still in your twenties, here are 15 things older people wish they’d started doing when they were your age. 15. Regretting this now. Exercising. Could’ve avoided...

Relationships can be really hard to navigate, and that goes double for people who struggle to read a room, another person, or even their own reactions and feelings. For a million reasons, it can be hard to realize when someone else isn’t really into you at all, so if you’re wondering that about someone right...

As someone who is married, I am fascinated by how other people make their marriages work. I love hearing (anonymously, of course) from marriage counselors on what goes on behind closed doors. If you have similar curiosities, here are 15 professionals on some dumb reasons couples come in for counseling. 15. It’s the secret to...

Listen, the recent months have been so far from the status quo that I honestly believed nothing could surprise me anymore. Like…whatever this year wants to throw at me, fine – I’ll just shrug and go about my business. I’m honestly not sure I can look the other way with this mustard-flavored beer, though, because,...

There are plenty of things your parents told you when you were little about eating food – mostly that you should eat vegetables because they would make you grow up big and strong or that candy would rot your teeth – and even though most of those adages turned out to be ways to control...

It’s a reality for most of these days that, if we want to spend time in public around other human beings, we’re wearing a mask or other face covering. That’s going to become even more common and imperative as we enter the winter months and are less able to spend time outdoors, so I’m sure...

History is chock-full of amazing people living lives you wouldn’t believe, and that’s only for the tiny, tiny percentage of humans we actually know something about. So whenever a “secret diary” is uncovered and we have another chance to peer into the past, I am here for it – and I didn’t know it until...

Some people go all-out for Christmas decorations, festooning the inside and outside of their house as if they’ve been possessed by the spirit of Clark Griswold before everything starts to go to hell. Other people live for autumn, and luckily for them, the idea of decorating the inside and outside of your home for Halloween...

For years, Christmas has cornered the market on gaudy, oversized, slightly (or more than slightly) ridiculous decorations for your home. Inside, outside, both – the more, the bigger, the brighter, the better. Halloween, though, is an up-and-coming holiday that’s getting tons more love than she used to – it’s fall, the weather is nice, the...