It’s the Connecting for Me
When I started this blog a few years ago, my mentor in resorting told me: "There is nothing worse than a dead blog. If you're not going to post regularly, don't do it." Now, what she meant was there is [...]
When I started this blog a few years ago, my mentor in resorting told me: "There is nothing worse than a dead blog. If you're not going to post regularly, don't do it." Now, what she meant was there is [...]
As the days get longer and the sun gets warmer, we're thinking: SUMMER! And planning for Summer 2021 has us doing a little tightrope-walking. We are balancing our strong need for normalcy, togetherness and fun with our other strong need [...]
2020. Whew. What a summer. What a year. What an adventure. I have been meaning to write to you for months. I was going to write in September and tell you how deeply grateful we all are for the community [...]
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 [...]
It's the most wonderful time of the year: holiday lights are hung, Christmas baking is in full swing and your 2020 summer reservation info is soon to hit the mailboxes (and inboxes)! In case you don't get around to reading [...]
Dear Bernard, On the day you were born it was a sunny Saturday in October. Your dad spent the whole day hauling leaves. Your mom was coming off of a busy week at her Eye Clinic (Fall Frame Sale!) You [...]
Wondering what has kept us so busy over the last few months?
What started with one monarch caterpillar named “Bear” and a repurposed flower vase turned into a nature-loving, science-class inspiring, eco-friendly operation of hatching monarch caterpillars into monarch butterflies and letting them go into the nature that we love. We [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]