Born on a snowy evening in Saskatchewan, Dec. 4, 1947 Heather Sander abandoned the cold weather as soon as she became an adult, moving first to Jamaica in 1969, with Canadian University Service Overseas and two years later to Lotus Land, otherwise known as Victoria, British Columbia. Along the way she acquired a husband, two kids and a dog. Heather entertained her own children by writing stories for them and continued to learn more about children by becoming an elementary school counsellor in the Victoria School District where she continues her research to this day when little children come to her office