If Brookside had a 2023 Word of the Year, it might be Balance. We’re trying to do that impossible task (many of you can probably relate)...

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...

As the days get longer and the sun gets warmer, we’re thinking: SUMMER! And planning for Summer 2021 has us doing a little...

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...

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...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year: holiday lights are hung, Christmas baking is in full swing and your 2020 summer reservation...

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...

It’s the middle of a most beautiful, sunny warm Minnesota summer and we are moving at full speed ahead around here! Both the fish and the...

What started with one monarch caterpillar named “Bear” and a repurposed flower vase turned into a nature-loving, science-class inspiring,...

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...

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...

It’s springtime at Brookside, and because we live in Northern Minnesota we know it’s going to be short. And while most Minnesotans just...

The Wallenberg and Keller families are right in the middle of developing our family vacation traditions. Really, we’re our own target...

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 than look through some of...

This was the sunset the other night, on the 34th anniversary of the day of my birth. Like someone, somewhere placed it right there just...

Summer 2017 wrapped up a few weeks ago and it was all the usual fun you expect from a summer at Brookside….plus one tiny little...

After 4 years of cones, malts, and sundaes, this Lodge Lady is taking a hiatus from her spot behind the snack bar. And as summer rolls...

With two brand-new bike riders at our house – we are spending a lot of time making bike-riding plans for the summer. And that got me...

Starting to write a blog feels kind of like the picture: riding a bike in rubber boots and a dress through the spring mud puddles. Aka:...