The Polar Bear Blog is a collection of northern stories - polar bear, arctic and otherwise from Churchill, Manitoba, Canada - the polar bear capital of the world. It is a mix of opinion (mostly), gossip (equally mostly), research and news.

It was started in a cabin just east of Churchill in 2006, mostly as a creative writing exercise and like most exercise programs, it has its ups and downs. Most of the ups (entries) are around October and November when I return to Churchill for polar bear season. Most of the downs (disappearances) are when I am travelling in Yukon and Alaska among other places.

I have a bad habit of completely immersing myself in a place when I am there and then doing the exact same thing in the very next place - so the polar bear blog goes dormant here and there when I am away. I have tried to write about Churchill and bears while I am not in Churchill itself and there is something just not quite right about that.

This will be my 13th polar bear season and over the years I have worked in a variety of roles, starting as a tundra buggy driver then working at the Churchill Northern Studies Centre, Parks Canada and on my own as polar bear guide for film crews. Now I have settled into the role of 'starving artist' (randomly employed to support his starving art) and you can find my paintings in the new blog site... somewhere.

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