by Lori Allen | Sep 24, 2015
From hiking in Ireland… to wine tasting in France… to basking in the sun in Aruba… to exploring around Japan… the life of a travel writer is certainly a romantic one. I’m in Denver, CO this week with more than 115 of your fellow readers, and an impressive team of... 
by Lori Allen | Jul 22, 2015
You might say that Sir William Henry Perkin was a complete failure. In 1856, while the young chemist was attempting to create a malaria cure, he created the color purple. A bit of unexpected residue from his lab test got on his clothes and died them mauve. He isolated...