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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Tasmanian autumn

On the mainland part of Australia, the only deciduous trees are European imports; all the gum trees (eucalypts) are stubbornly evergreen.

Tasmania, however, is home to Australia’s only autumnal leaf-dropper, Nothofagus gunnii, otherwise known as “fagus” for short, or the deciduous beech, or “tanglefoot” because of its dense impenetrable large-shrubbiness.

It grows in only a few alpine and […]