Sunday, May 17, 2015. We visited an Ozark fen that had been used in the 1970s as a recreational mud pit for trucks. The deep muck almost swallowed my colleague as he sank to his knees in beautiful black fen soil. He came out with a monster-sized devil crawfish whose turrets and tunnels coursed through the fen. This fen is dominated by uncommon sedges and ragworts today, but I wonder what we lost during the 1970s. Friday, May 08, 2015. Native to Missouri, yes, but what region? .

Thoughts, curiousities and general ramblings. Sunday, November 20, 2011. Still gives me goosebumps! Got engaged last Friday. His proposal was more romantic than I could have ever imagined, and I was totally surprised.

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A graduate of Columbia University and a resident of New York, Allison is a freelance writer and editor. She has written about money for publications like Forbes, The Today Show, Business Insider, The Huffington Post, TheStreet, Credit. com, Fox Business News and The Fiscal Times. In addition, her work has appeared in lifestyle publications like Real Simple, Travel Leisure, Lifehacker, xoJane and BoingBoing.