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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A day out of the box

Today was a good day; the partial proof of which is that I took nearly 200 photos (not all of them good photos, mind you, but all of them of things worth trying to photograph).

It began with sunrise. One of the good things about winter is that sunrise doesn’t happen until after 7:30, which is a […]

41. Teamwork [100 poems challenge]

 

41.          Teamwork

Load anchor, and bailers, and fenders, and mast,
And don’t forget gaff and the boom,
The spinnaker helps if you want to go fast,
The jib and two oars take up room.

When all the gear’s loaded aboard, my lads,
Sing “Haul, Scouts, haul”
We’ll launch with the help of the mums and dads
Sing “Haul, Scouts, haul”.

A trailer downhill has a […]