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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12 of 12, June 2013

Lunch today interrupted some meanderings on the east coast of Tasmania, with the meanderings documented in this month’s 12 of 12 collection. Lunch, on the other hand, is documented here so as not to interrupt the generally scenic mood of the rest of the day’s photos. I’m not sure that this photo does justice to how […]

June 12th, 2013 | Category: 12 of 12 | Leave a comment

42. Standing Still [100 poems challenge]

 

42.          Standing Still

The tourists seem to think it’s grand
To photograph it in their hand,
Despite the fact that it’s a clichéd thrill;
While Galileo chose to throw
Two masses (so the stories go)
To see which one was first to reach the ground.
Now mighty work from engineers
Has gone some way to counter fears
That one day it would surely topple down.
Despite […]

June 12th, 2013 | Category: Poems | 2 comments