Dramatis persona*

helenhead Helen Chick

I've always wanted a bumper sticker that said "I'm a female, LDS/Mormon, Scout leading, geocaching, piano-playing, bicycling, mathematics educator with a PhD in maths ... and I VOTE"!

I think this makes me a minority group of cardinality 1!

* Since there's only one of me and "personae" is plural (I think), I've gone with dramatis persona.
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Roads not taken

So many places, and so little time.

When I was growing up we used to go for family holidays and drives, and a typical activity would be “let’s see where THAT road goes”. Sometimes the results were dull, other times interesting or exciting, and on one occasion we came out in someone’s backyard. Oops!

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