While exploring outside near his Vancouver Island home, a young boy discovers a butterfly with big orange wings. His older sister tells him what she has learned in school about Monarch butterflies and how they fly south each winter.
Their butterfly has been blown off course from the other butterflies migrating south so they start leaving out fruit so it can build up its strength and rejoin the trip south.
Stephen Hume was born in Dallas, Texas. He has two adult daughters, Georgia and Natalie. He reads, writes, watches movies, and practices Buddhism and chen style tai chi. Stephen teaches writing to graduate and undergraduate students in the Economics Department at the University of Victoria. He incorporates movies into his lectures, especially movies that have an economics theme, such as Fight Club, The Grapes of Wrath, and Dr. Strangelove. He lives in Victoria, B.C.
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