Polar Bears
I have been fascinated with polar bears since high school. I did my advanced biology paper and presentation on polar bears. I’ve been a sucker for them ever since. I collect life-like figurines of polar bears. I have studied their habitat and lifestyle. I have a fictional polar bear character who seems very real to me. If I need an on-line handle, I choose some variant of PolarBear. I have even taken on some characteristics of a polar bear in my physical appearance.
At one time, I wanted to take an ecotourism tour to Churchill, Manitoba. My passport has expired now, and I don’t plan to renew it, so I doubt I’ll ever take that trip. I do sometimes tune into the polar bear cams in November to watch the bears gather. Polar bears fascinate me.
Despite this fascination, I retain a firm “foot on the ground” sense of reality that cute as a polar bear may look, they are deadly and decidedly not to be trusted.