Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

You’d think it would be common sense that food items don’t belong, you know, anyplace inside you other than your stomach. You’d think that, but you would sadly be wrong. Last year, doctors had to put out a warning that cucumbers shouldn’t go inside your vagina, and this year, they’re having to do the same...

There are a gazillion people in the world who love Harry Potter (like, almost everyone), and we all have our favorite things about the series – characters, spells, houses, colors, installments – but it’s tough to find a fan out there who doesn’t give Dumbledore his props. If you love Dumbledore as much as (or...

Interviews are kind of like dating – you do your best to weed through the potential landmines ahead of time, but there’s no way to really know who you’re meeting until you show up and shake hands. Well, that and sometimes it takes a lot of hand-shaking before you find the one that fits. https://twitter.com/harriepw/status/1217831451963555840...

Sex and gender are more complicated than people want to believe. And in a world where many, many brave folks are coming forward to say that they don’t want to be categorized with the sex they were born with, or that they don’t identify with a particular gender at all, or a hundred other combinations...

When you think of Sesame Street, what comes to mind is probably fairly innocuous – Big Birds, inclusive songs, grown-ups helping kids through difficult scenarios, etc. So it might surprise you to learn that the state of Mississippi once found it offensive enough to kick it off the air entirely. Since the show takes such...

If you spent any time poking around in the dirt in your yard as a kid, you’ll no doubt remember those little silver bugs with short legs, cute antennae, and the ability to roll up into a tight ball at any sign of danger. Like, you know, prodding kid fingers. We called them roly-polys, but...

Cards Against Humanity took the world by storm a few years back, getting families everywhere into uncomfortable silence as they slowly realized had to explain what an*l beads are to grandma. Just me? It might be better played among friends and peers, but either way, people just love being delightfully wrong and calling it wholesome...

When actors and actresses reach a certain level of fame, you might think they can command roles and screen time wherever they go – but it turns out that almost everyone has to work for their time in front of the camera, not matter how famous. Just like the rest of us work for a...

In case you missed it, the government of the United States recently unveiled the uniforms for their newly-minted Space Force, an entity meant to compliment NASA and be prepared for what they apparently believe is the inevitable day the countries of Earth take their fight to space. I can’t believe I just typed that in...

As a culture, we are taught from our earliest days that being thin is preferable to being fat – and preferable, even, to being happy with how our bodies look, even when they’re healthy. That’s different for everyone – some people are healthy at a size ten, others at a size 4, others still at...

Everyone knows Australia is home to like…pretty much all of the scariest animals and insects on earth, but try this one on for size: now, it’s home to four new species of sharks that can walk, too. Yeah. Four more, which means there were already walking sharks. And while we are rightfully mourning the loss...

First off, yes… not all of us have breasts that are permanent, for various reasons. But we’re talking in evolutionary terms, and in that sense, yes, human women do have permanent breasts. The weird thing is that when speaking about the evolutionary and biological reasons females possess breasts at all, there is no obvious reason...

Collections are odd things, by nature. Typically a collections is filled with stuff that is interesting to the person who gathers it, but often doesn’t mean much to everyone else. Also, you walk a fine line between collecting and hoarding, and it’s important to know when to stop. You don’t want to end up on...

If you think that romance and grand gestures are only for the young, well…these kids are not going to change your opinion. Because this high school boy went way beyond even the most elaborate prom-posal when he made a dress – from scratch – so that his date would have her dream gown for the...

If you watch the news on television – whether it’s local, national, or world – chances are that anything not terrifying has gotten buried (or even completely dumped) in order to give them enough time to cover all of the fires (sometimes literal sometimes figurative) happening all over the world. But maybe we just need...