Collecting bear stories
TheBear
Over the summer, I will be slowing down on posting bear stories, but still collecting them.Do you have a bear story? Please get in touch. I'm interested in photos, written stories, iPhone videos or I can film you, if nearby.I am collecting bear stories because I wrote one, a novel called The Bear.It will be simultaneously published in Canada, US, UK & the Commonwealth in February 2014. You can pre-order now.I am interested in why we tell bear stories, what we get from them, how they help us and how they don’t.I won't be posting much this summer, but you will enjoy the bear stories that this great cast of characters have told:
Bear stories that take place in the head and the heart - Taking on the Bear by Matt Beam and Grizzly bear double dare by Bay Ryley and Suzanne Leigh in Yosemite
Kids with bear stories - Asha on a canoe trip and Quinn, who woke up to a bear in his window and Jason Logan's sends in one about a boy who fights back
Bear crime stories - Molly Browne in Boulder and a first-hand look at how a bear opens a truck door,Ryan McIntosh had his honey stolen and Denise Bukowski fends off a car jacker
Treeplanters in bear country - Leigh-Anne Graham hears someone eating apples and Trish Magwood is offered a gun
Encountering a mother and cubs - Christine Fischer Guy goes for a quiet bike ride
Scientists and bears - Ray Jahncke's Kinder Surprise Eggs
Competing for meat - Timothy Hume finds something else is after his moose carcass
Bears at camp - Jamie Coulter, a long night and baby blue track pants and when Andrea Dorfman lost her toothpaste
Celebrity bear stories - Justin Bieber ate a bear and David Letterman spins a yarn