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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Pottering around Coles Bay

I decided to take a couple of days of leave from work, add them to the long weekend, and drag my parents away to Coles Bay for a bit of a break. We arrived late on Sunday afternoon, which meant that on Monday morning we were already in our comfortable accommodation — with its wonderful view […]

June 10th, 2013 | Category: Excursions | 2 comments

40. Rated [100 poems challenge]

 

40.          Rated

It’s been long past a month, and here we are
With forty verses, all matched to their themes,
The best aren’t bad, but some are under par;
And not all follow perfect rhyming schemes.
I’ve done haiku, which comes from far Japan,
And double dactyl’s fun but quite contrived,
A limerick was always in the plan,
The ballad somehow started and survived.
There’s […]

June 10th, 2013 | Category: Poems | Leave a comment