Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

I honestly hate that this topic of conversation is so necessary – and that there are so many different answers – because a simple “I’m not interested” should certainly suffice. We still live in a world where it often isn’t, though I hope everyone raising boys today is teaching them that no means no and...

Online harassment is all too common these days, and even though it can happen to anyone, women often find themselves dealing with the brunt of this unwanted attention. We all have our ways of dealing with messages and pictures that cross too many lines to count, but what if the “accepted” routes of reporting, blocking,...

There’s no doubt that relationships are hard, but if you read enough posts on Reddit’s Am I The A$$hole thread, you’ll also realize how many women don’t actually realize when they’re in relationships with terrible men. There’s a learning curve when it comes to dating, apparently, and way too many of us spent way too...

I’m pretty sure that every single job on the planet has its secrets. The things only the people who do them day in and day out really understand, and in most cases, even if the rest of us might find it interesting, it doesn’t affect us so much. Not so with the medical industry, as...

As a child with a fairly average life and better-than-average parents, I have to admit I didn’t spend a lot of time thinking about death or what would happen to me if my parents passed away unexpectedly. Now that I am a parent, I spend way too much time worrying about what would happen to my kids...

Thankfully, being orphaned as a child isn’t something that a large number of us will experience in our lives. Losing our parents (if they’re good ones, and sometimes even if they’re not) as adults is hard enough, but going through that trauma as a kid can definitely be devastating. These 11 people came out on...

If there’s one thing that unites people around the world, it’s that we love a good brain teaser. Remember the blue (or maybe gold) dress? Those shoes that were green or maybe pink? Trying to figure out which is correct, if there is a right answer, and then argue with our friends and family really...

I’m a parent, and I’ve been a parent to young kids during a pandemic, so listen – if the headline of this article or the subject of this study immediately raises your hackles, I get it. We’ve all done what we had to do in order to get through it. Now that we’re starting to...

I think that, past a certain age, most of us run out of f**ks to give when it comes to spending time with people we genuinely don’t like. We don’t have the energy anymore to pretend they feel differently, and also, we kind of start to realize there’s not much of a point. That said,...

If there’s one thing that GenX and Millennial parents have gotten right, it’s that when they see something they say something – and in general, they are pretty hip to all of the things they wish had been done differently when they were growing up. In particular, we’ve come an awfully long way when it...

When you think of the long-running game show Wheel of Fortune, controversy is probably not the first thing that comes to mind. After all, it’s the show your parents and grandparents like to watch after they finish their 5pm dinner, right? Well, it turns out this is not always the case (apparently), because at least one puzzle...

After all of these decades hosting Wheel of Fortune, you might think that host Pat Sajak has seen it all – and I imagine that he is pretty hard to surprise at this point. Not impossible to surprise, though, as he found out when he watched a contestant solve a puzzle he honestly couldn’t believe. The contestant’s...

You know that old saying “don’t knock it ’til you’ve tried it?” I think it applies to most things in life (at least, that’s what I tell my preschooler when I’m trying to get him to try new foods), but mostly, it’s important not to judge other people’s tastes unless you’ve given them a go...

If human beings have a single fault that’s usually thought of as the opposite, it’s how much we love to give advice, whether it’s been solicited or not. Too many folks assume they’ve got the cure for something they don’t understand, or think that answers to complicated issues are somehow one-size-fits-all. That definitely goes for...

I love the sort of questions on Reddit that get really juicy answers – because even though you have to assume that the people around you are keeping secrets, you’ll probably never know what sort unless they decide to confess. They might be funny or sad, old or new, life-changing or something they need to...