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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Around the rim

We arrived back at the top of the Bright Angel trail shortly after 6pm, which seemed to leave enough time to do the 4.8km walk around the rim of the canyon back to where our coaches were parked. Just one of the colleagues joined me for this walk, since it was going to be brisk in […]

[RST] An unspectacular sunset?

I have just had the privilege of visiting the Grand Canyon at sunset. It occurred to me, as I watched a feeble small red glow stretch across the distant cliffs, that some people would be disappointed with the lack of the spectacular effect that they had come to see, while totally missing the fact that there’s […]

Bright Angel Trail, Grand Canyon

Like many conferences, the one that I am attending had an excursion afternoon, and when you’re 1.5 hours’ drive from the Grand Canyon the obvious place to go is … the Grand Canyon.

(Warning: In my family we still talk about all the Uluru sunset pictures that one of my sisters took many years ago on a […]

12 of 12, July 2014

This month’s 12 of 12 sees me several thousand kilometres from home, after 24 hours of travelling, 7 more hours of staying awake and then 7 hours of very solid sleep. I awoke this morning to find myself in Flagstaff, Arizona (which is good, because that’s where my befuddled brain was hoping I was the night […]

Moods of the Mountain #36

Sunrise on a mild winter morning.

And behind me, live on television, Germany were thrashing Brazil 7-1 in the semi-final of the football/soccer World Cup.

The full Moods of the Mountain collection […]