Appetite For Distraction

We went to Canada for the bears, but came across the rom-com to beat all rom-coms... and Heath Ledger

Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles in 10 Things I Hate About You: a classic of its kind

When I was about 18 I went to Canada for a summer. My friend and I lived in the basement of her aunt’s house in the countryside somewhere outside Calgary and listened for coyotes and asked anyone who would listen to tell us all of their bear stories.

We took a trip way up north to a place called Cold Lake where the bears had left scratches on the outside walls of the ...