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X-Rated Logs

Dear Boundless Families: I just happened to paddle by a pod of teenagers canoeing on the Madawaska yesterday, hooting and hollering and making quite a fuss over a dead log. With its base anchored and unmovable in the river bed, the other end protruded from the...

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Intensive Parenting Be Damned

Dear Boundless Families: To begin, I want to offer my congratulations to the many parents who managed to let go of their kids for almost two weeks. This is no small accomplishment in this day and age of "Intensive Parenting", a new term I learned this past week....

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Culminating in a Coffin

Dear Boundless Families: Two nights ago, I witnessed your kids spend the night outside sleeping in winter coffins. For two days previous to that, they were hamming it up for the cameras of a film crew who came to Boundless with the impossible task of capturing what...

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Fail Me Not, Captain Kirk

Dear Boundless Families: Yesterday morning I asked the students to give me a topic for a "Stevening". They chose "Secrets of Adulthood". They think I am an adult. Imagine that. I tried to convince them otherwise, and the evening took on a tinge of hilarity amidst a...

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There are Miracles, Ya Know

Dear Boundless Families: Your lovelies arrived safely yesterday.  They were out on the rink last night, horsing around and breaking the ice, or at least trying to skate on it. They then flocked indoors, like honey bees to their queen, buzzing around Mary-Michelle,...

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Trust as Powerful as a Winter Storm

Dear Boundless Families: I was watching your kids trudging through the heavy snowfall this morning on their way to English class. This is a workout all on its own. Lift those knees high and squint to keep the frozen water molecules from stinging your eyes. I had to...

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A Dramatic Hybrid Life

Dear Boundless Families: I came into my office this morning with a laptop in one hand and a chainsaw in the other. Greeted with snickers and eye-rolls by my colleagues, I am not sure if what they saw was irony, absurdity, or the perfect metaphor for this hybrid...

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Krispy Kremes and Teenage Dreams

Dear Boundless Families: I arrived back at Boundless a couple of days ago. I have belly laughed with your kids ever since. I have taught them, played chess and bantered with them. Sadly, I also smelled a few. Hey, they are busy sweating through their routines, and...

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Elephants, Be Damned

Dear Boundless Families: Everyone arrived safely yesterday, except one of our favourite students of all time, who was delayed a few days because the bugger hurt his foot on day minus one. That one-week break can be as hazardness as a class three rapid. C'mon L.,...

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Is This All a Dream?

Dear Boundless Families: I've been stuffing my face with organic vegetables the last few weeks. So have your kids. The stuff flies off the shelves. Craig, the Head Cook, is shocked. "I have never seen kids eat vegetables like this before." Perhaps it's because they...

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