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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Semiconscious accident victim

The “blood’ was mostly dry by the time this photo was taken, not least because I’d been “semiconscious” for nearly an hour after the “car crash”.

Tonight some of the Scouts and leaders in our troop were accident victims for someone else’s first aid course. We’d all been briefed about our injuries and the kinds of symptoms […]

June 5th, 2013 | Category: Scouts, Slightly mad activities | Leave a comment

35. Hold My Hand [100 poems challenge]

 

35.          Hold My Hand

I look at you beside me
Legs scampering to match my stride,
Eager and wondering;
And I move my hand towards you
Palm open, welcoming,
You reach and clasp it eagerly,
All your strength gentle,
All your trust poured into the grip.
“To be sure of you”
Said Piglet to Pooh,
But here, as I walk with my niece,
To be sure of each […]

June 5th, 2013 | Category: Poems | Leave a comment