Boundless School Blog
Just Another Day on Fire
Dear Boundless Families: After an 8-day stint in Toronto, I arrived yesterday with a two-four of Krispy Kremes in order to bribe my way into the tumult of teenagers. Charm alone doesn't cut it for me anymore. It worked. The gang was grateful. Parents, apparently,...
BLIS Fall 2023 – I Am Not Kanye
Dear Boundless Families: The gang arrived safely yesterday to overcast skies. Within two hours the clouds cleared, as did much of the anxiety your kids must have felt coming to a new scene, a new group, and a new life filled with responsibility, accountability and...
Our 2022/23 Annual Report is Now Available
Hello Friends of Boundless - Click here to visit our Annual Report for the year ending March 31, 2023. There are also many supporting documents available on our website that will enable the reader to take a deep dive into what makes Boundless tick. Our students...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...