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.