I remember the first Halloween I experienced in Canada in the mid-1970s. I took my little sister trick-or-treating through the streets of our neighborhood in East Vancouver. I was amazed at how different this western holiday of Halloween was from our Polish All...
The Aboriginal people of Australia had been creating rock art for millennia. Okra paint was used to paint on rocks, and so archeologists have been able to date some of the oldest rock art to as far back as 60,000 years ago. The caves in the Kimberly hold some of the...
While I was making this charming postcard of our adventure on the Great Barrier Reef, Padma and I realized that, to be honest, we had to show you one more illustration… Yes, but how was I supposed to do it? How do you show the impact of global warming, man-made...
As Australia is now open from lockdowns, we are going for the summer holidays. Padma and I are hitting the road and heading north to the Great Barrier Reef. From there, we plan to travel through the “Red Centre” south to Tasmania. We can put aside five months to...
I left home in the summer of 1980, assuring my parents that I would return to Vancouver in the autumn. I told them I would be camping for the summer with friends. However, I kept secret that those friends would drive me all the way into the Yukon Territory from where... 