Thanks to a whole bunch of remarkable individuals and months of hard work, a very special group of people were able to give some kids in Vancouver the chance to speak about their passions in a TEDx talk at Telus World of Science. I was thrilled to be a presenter at this event and in fact it’s the reason I didn’t write a post here for five months – I was practicing my TED talk! I had watched a lot of TED talks over the years but never imagined having the chance to do one mysel

Deer visit us all year but especially in the spring and summer. The same families return to our yard each year. One of the Moms always has twins. This is “Stuey” – one of the twins. It seems like they are so young when they have to leave their Moms and survive on their own. This “teenager” kept coming back to us because he grew up in our yard. His antlers were only three or four inches long at the time. I got a photo of him one day and painted him from the photo. I didn’t kno