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Jan 25, 20243 min read
The Things We Haven't Told You
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)...
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brooksideresort
Jan 25, 20242 min read
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...
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brooksideresort
Jan 25, 20241 min read
Tell us what you think!
As the days get longer and the sun gets warmer, we’re thinking: SUMMER! And planning for Summer 2021 has us doing a little...
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brooksideresort
Jan 25, 20243 min read
The Blog That Wwas Long Overdue
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...
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brooksideresort
Jan 25, 20243 min read
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...
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brooksideresort
Jan 25, 20243 min read
It's Time....
It’s the most wonderful time of the year: holiday lights are hung, Christmas baking is in full swing and your 2020 summer reservation...
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brooksideresort
Jan 25, 20243 min read
Dear Bernard
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...
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brooksideresort
Jan 24, 20241 min read
The Five-Minute Update from Brookside
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...
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brooksideresort
Jan 24, 20243 min read
The Monarch Butterfly Nursery at Brookside
What started with one monarch caterpillar named “Bear” and a repurposed flower vase turned into a nature-loving, science-class inspiring,...
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brooksideresort
Jan 12, 20243 min read
Speed Zone Ahead: Middle of 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...
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brooksideresort
Jan 12, 20242 min read
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...
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brooksideresort
Jan 12, 20243 min read
Springtime at Brookside
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...
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brooksideresort
Jan 12, 20244 min read
We went on a family vacation!
The Wallenberg and Keller families are right in the middle of developing our family vacation traditions. Really, we’re our own target...
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brooksideresort
Jan 12, 20242 min read
Winter Fun at Brookside Resort
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...
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brooksideresort
Jan 12, 20242 min read
Birthday Sunsets at Brookside Resort
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...
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brooksideresort
Jan 12, 20242 min read
The Night We All Became Peacemakers
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...
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brooksideresort
Jan 12, 20243 min read
What's it really like to work at Brookside?
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...
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brooksideresort
Jan 12, 20243 min read
Biker's Guide to Brookside
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...
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brooksideresort
Jan 12, 20242 min read
The blog begins!
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:...
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