Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

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...

If you’re keeping a secret, you know how stressful it can be to a) remember you’re keeping a secret and b) worry about what might happen if it gets out. The longer you keep it, the harder it gets – you just feel like you have to tell someone, right? Some of these 16 folks...

Everyone in the world has a secret. Some of us have been keeping them since childhood while others have acquired theirs more recently, but if there’s one thing we have in common it’s that we’d rather not have to let them out of the bag, you know. Ever. These 17 people needed to get something...

I don’t know about you, but when I was growing up we didn’t know a whole lot about ADHD. It was all about little boys who were super annoying, super loud, and who couldn’t sit still – but there was medication to fix that, and so no one really thought to dig any deeper. Now...

I don’t know about you, but one of my worst nightmares is waking up to someone in my room, or someone trying to break into my house when I’m there alone with my kids, or you know…anything along those lines, really. That scenario became reality for 19-year-old Canadian Josie Bowers when she went to shower...

Now, I know that there are times in every person’s life when they wonder whether the world (or their parents or their siblings or friends) would have been better off if they hadn’t been born. Likewise, we’ve all likely reminded our parents on one occasion or another that we didn’t ask to be born, but listen…no...

I know that you’re sitting there already trying to figure it out after reading the headline, but get ready, because it’s not as easy as you might think. I mean, I love a good brain teaser and I bet you do, too, so maybe you think you’re up for the challenge. Whether you’re going to...

Personally, I’ve never used fabric softener in my laundry, not even when I had wee babies with super sensitive skin. It probably has something to do with my mother never using fabric softener, and so I always assumed that a) I didn’t need it and b) I wouldn’t know how to use it even if...

Most people who have been paying attention to the modeling and fashion industry for any amount of time realize that honestly, there is probably more that’s distasteful than not about the entire thing. What we see in ads does not reflect reality, but that doesn’t stop them from affecting the way girls and women think...

This is an interesting question (posed on Reddit), because I feel like in most cases it’s kind of the opposite – we assume things are rare and pay way too much money for them when in fact, they’re super common (like diamonds). At first, I couldn’t even come up with an answer to this question...

I think that, the majority of the time, women are fine with picking up their own sanitary products at the store. We know what we like, they’re easy for us to find and grab when we’re doing the shopping for the family or running in for a few last-minute dinner items. That said, there are...