When I started at 17th Essendon Scouts, not long after I moved to Melbourne in 1999, there was a young Scout in the troop named Matthew Cengia. Some three years later he was among the first Scouts with whom I had had significant interaction to achieve the highest award in the Scout age group (what was […]
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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 |
Early in my between-campus trips to Launceston, I happened to notice a couple of peculiar objects off the side of the road, tucked away in a copse of trees beyond the fence as I sped past. On the following trips I made a better mental note of their location, and promised myself that one day I […] To everything there may be a season … One of the curses — and blessings — of my personality is that I’ve always been interested in getting involved in a wide variety of stuff, to the extent that I tend to over-commit myself because — to paraphrase Allie Brosh’s famous “Clean all the things” illustration — I […] … Somewhere, under the rainbow(s) … The entire Moods of the Mountain series can be […] The snow on yesterday’s mountain was merely a portent of things to come. I had a 9am meeting in Launceston today necessitating a 6am departure on a very chilly dark morning. As I headed out past Bagdad in the pre-dawn light I noticed patches of white on the hills, and by Dysart it was pretty obvious […] Winter starts to hit with a vengeance. The entire Moods of the Mountain series can be […] |
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