Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

There are a ton of businesses and products and other types of offerings out there that just, you know…they’re not doing their best. Or maybe they are, and it’s just not good enough. Sometimes we can simply avoid those brands and our lives are better for it, but sometimes they’re things that, for one reason...

Obviously, when we’re going out for some (relatively) cheap food at a joint where you go through a drive thru or order at a counter, we’re not expecting to get gourmet or healthy fare. That said, most of us hope, at least, that what we’re putting in our mouths is going to be what was...

We might go to fast food places knowing that we’re getting a bunch of fat, preservatives, and other additives that will make us have regrets (probably sooner rather than later), but we hope that the places we frequent take their cleanliness and other health standards seriously. We probably realize, though, that’s not always true –...

I think that, when it comes to zodiac signs, the majority of people fall into the “eh, whatever” category. We enjoy reading our horoscope now and again, and we totally know our signs and all of that, but we’re not organizing our life around what the stars say is going to happen. There are some...

Some people – maybe even a lot of people – are derisive when talking about people who live their lives by their astrological charts. They use them to understand their (and other people’s) personalities, to guess what the next move might be in their career or personal life, and a hundred things in between. And...

Real Talk: There are so many things that are called romantic in books and movies and songs but, when you apply them to real life, are nothing but creepy and/or toxic. Singer and songwriter Naya Ford took that truth head on during a TikTok video, asking her followers to weigh in on “something that people...

You know that moment when you turn over the price tag on something and your mouth just falls open? Maybe you laugh a little because of the shock, or show it to a friend, but deep down, you know for sure that the thing – whatever it is – is not worth what’s being asked....

Most of us have a gut feeling, I think, when something we’re looking at online or in a store is totally overpriced. Even if you’re not super familiar with whatever the item is, we sort of have an idea in our minds about what it’s worth. In these 17 cases, people’s radars went off right...

There are some things in life that we expect to be hard going in, and so we’re pretty accepting when that’s how it goes. Other things are as simple as we expect, and others we think are going to be rougher than they turn out to be (those are the best). On the opposite end...

It’s one thing to go into a task knowing that it’s going to be an uphill battle the whole way. It’s going to be a lot of work, but it’ll be worth it in the end, blah blah blah, and so we dive right in. We get offended, I think, when we’re not expecting a...

You might have heard recently, during the apocalyptic ice and snow event that caused power outages all over Texas, that wind turbines being unable to operate in the extreme cold were at least partly to blame for the catastrophe that took several dozen lives. Since, however, wind turbines thrive in places with extreme weather, such...

There’s a category of post on the internet that are known as “shower thoughts.” You know, those odd, rambling, totally out there but not necessarily irrelevant thoughts that come to you while you have nothing particular to ponder but whether or not you’ll need to shave your legs? I know you’ve had some great ones...

Hollywood has been churning out the remakes lately, and with a very few notable exceptions, most of them have been panned. The originals have a place in our hearts and minds, and sometimes, they’re so inextricably tied to the times when we first saw them that there’s no way anything could be seen as an...

When you hear a word like “megalodon” to describe an animal, ancient or not, you’re probably picturing something – in this case, a shark – that’s really, really big. Just how big megalodon likely was, though, really only comes into a clear focus when we compare it to things we’re relatively sure of the size of...

I know, I know, we just survived one holiday season. The last thing you want to do is be reminded that another one is already on the way, right? Well, in the spirit of getting a jump on things and having fun, wintertime game nights to look forward to, Hallmark is offering a holiday-themed version of Monopoly for...