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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First ever overnight hike

My Dad has been scanning some of his old slides, which include photographs of various family events over the last several decades. He came across this one from my first ever hike. He and Mum took me in to the original Lake Pedder way back when I was 7, just before the lake was dammed and […]

June 28th, 2013 | Category: Excursions, Family, Reminiscing | One comment

58. Kick in the Head [100 poems challenge]

 

58.          Kick in the Head

I rikkin when yore git up and go
Done got uppen goned
There ain’t much you kin do bout it,
‘Ceptin’ mebbe findin some body
Who kin give yoursin a
Right good kick in the head.

Only iffen there’s nowt but yoursin
To be doin it
Then lessen youse
Doublejointid or sichlike
I rikkin youse
Ain’t gonna git yore
Good ole metatarsals
Anyplace nigh yore […]

June 28th, 2013 | Category: Poems | Leave a comment