Meg Robbins, is a freelance writer and education consultant. She writes about pretty much anything that catches her interest but focuses largely on travel, education—and horses. Her occasional blog, Up the Ben and Down the Boozer ranks 12,223,963 in the United States and 11,319,655 in the Rest of the World, which she finds encouragingly shows room for growth. Once a newspaper feature journalist and briefly a book reviewer, she has been published in local and regional magazines and newspapers as well as Travelmag, Salon, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Boston Globe and New York Times. She is currently writing a novel about greed.