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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12 of 12, July 2013

There are a few things about Melbourne that I have missed since moving back to Tasmania over 18 months ago. Friends are the most significant of these, but I have to admit that there have been times when I have missed the ready access to a good hot chocolate.

I have been back in Melbourne this week, […]

72. Mischief Managed [100 poems challenge]

 

72.          Mischief Managed

Serried ranks
Of battered desks,
Their ordered rows
Mocked by the disorder of
Gangly teenagers,
Restless and rambunctious,
On the cusp
Of outright riot.

With eyebrow raised
In stern rebuke,
A laser-guided stare
Across the room
Nails one target
Then another.
Noise subsides
To mute respect.

8 July 2013

 

Comments: When I first looked at this theme, I was tempted to write, simply, “Sit down//Shut up”, but it seemed […]