Anne R. Allen's Books

I don't know if it was my own mother or somebody else's who first warned me of the dangers of mixing bleach and ammonia. But lik...

Did you know that warfarin, also known as Coumadin—that stuff that Grampa takes to prevent a stroke—was originally developed as a rat p...

Poisons come in many forms, and psychological poison can be the deadliest.  This week I saw a tweet for a piece I wrote for Compose lite...

The Yew tree ( Taxus baccata ) is a conifer with bright red berries. It's native to Europe but was used as a shrub in a lot in landsc...

Those pretty golden daffodils and their cousins, paperwhites, jonquils, and all the other members of the narcissus family are as dangero...