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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I once read a cartoon or quote that said “A statistician is a person who can stand with one foot in a bucket of icy water and the other in a bucket of boiling water and say ‘On average I feel fine’!”

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Church architecture

Sunday 18 Oct

As Johnnies-come-lately to the Oxford church architectural scene, we Mormons must have decided to keep it simple and just not to even bother trying to compete with the sandstone/limestone spires and gothic carvings. So, instead, we have 1970s functional.

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More exploring

Saturday 17 Oct

I did some more exploring today, in and around Oxford.

In the morning I made my way to the little village of Binsey, which is close enough to Oxford to be suburbia and yet it has a sense of middle-of-nowhere-ness. In fact, the parish church, St Margaret’s, doesn’t even have electricity, which means there are […]