About 1000 years ago a volcano erupted in Arizona, and some really cool evidence remains, not least of which is a very large hill known as Sunset Crater. For a number of reasons you can’t walk up on the crater itself, but there are extensive lava fields and cinder debris, creating a very dramatic landscape. We […]
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Dramatis persona*
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. Visits since May 2016 |
Following the conference my friend Noleine and I had planned a couple of days of sightseeing. I felt game enough to drive (I have driven in North America before, although it was a while ago) and so we hired a car, allowing us to travel further afield according to our own desires and timetable. For our […] While I was at the Lowell observatory there was something in the souvenir shop that caught my eye, and after a brief moment’s thought I decided I had to have one. It is made of different stones/minerals; the asteroid belt is there, and a single small metal sphere represents Pluto and the Kuiper belt dwarf planets and […] |
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