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) of balancing all the things. Around here, that means: projects, ideas, marketing, reservations, technology, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 cold. And snowy. And the sun sets at 5:11 pm up north these days. So there is nothing we like to do more [...]
My word for year #34: Create
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 out of the ordinary thing that we need to tell you all about. And that [...]
