One of the things I love about geocaching is that it gets me to new and amazing places. Even though I think I know my home state well, there have been numerous occasions where the scent of a hidden plastic box has revealed some gem of a location that I didn’t know existed. The fact of […]
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Dramatis persona*
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. Visits since May 2016 |
Since moving back to Tasmania I have been meeting up with people that I used to know from various times in my pre-Victorian past. In some cases, I haven’t seen these folks since long before I moved to Melbourne 13 years ago. On many occasions early in the conversation they have said to me “You haven’t changed […] Q: Do you believe in luck? A: Heads I do, tails […] I have difficulty writing short […] I have marked my territory. I had a grumpy day on Monday (it started with the fact that I was obliged to go to work on a public holiday and went downhill from there) and in the afternoon I decided to give up doing serious work and spend some time building a tesseract to hang outside the […] It seems that the Kodak company is pretty much defunct. Its film was such a fundamental part of my growing up. I had been given a little camera before my age hit double figures, and by my mid-teens I was shooting with Kodak slide film. In the years that followed — up until I fully converted to […] Earlier this week I decided that I had “moved in” enough that I could face the true test of having moved back to Tasmania: hosting the family Sunday night dinner. For a number of years this event has alternated from week to week among the homes of my Hobart siblings and parents, and as an infrequent […] |
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