Spring 2020: The Weirdest One Ever
I have sat down to write to you a dozen times in the last few weeks, but it always ends the same. A fragmented idea, a few sentences, and then an unfinished word doc crowding up my desktop. However, that [...]
The Five Minute Update from Brookside
Wondering what has kept us so busy over the last few months?
Speed Zone Ahead: “Middle Fall”
It’s a weird in-between season around here. Not exactly fall because those leaves are long gone and the only color in the trees alternates between a half-dead brown and white snow, depending on the day’s high temperature. And not exactly [...]
Minnesota’s Second Best Season
It’s with mixed emotions that we check another Minnesota summer off the list. Because summers here are SO FUN. And also because the end of summer means jumping back into the routine of school and work. And, although we know [...]
Spring is in the Air
It’s spring time at Brookside, and because we live in Northern Minnesota we know it’s going to be short. And while most Minnesotans just find this to be the price we pay to enjoy the best summers on Earth, we [...]
We Went on a Family Vacation: All You Got Was Kitchen Shears
The Wallenberg and Keller families are right in the middle of developing our family vacation traditions. Really, we’re our own target market….except for that whole NO free time in the summer. So, what do you do when summer vacations are [...]
It’s Winter….but we are (Always) Thinking Summer
It’s cold. And snowy. And the sun sets at 5:11 pm up north these days. So there is nothing we like to do more [...]