Boundless School Blog
There is a Point to Sweatpants
Dear Boundless Families: All arrived safely yesterday. The game is afoot. What game exactly? Leave behind your people, your comforts and your self-indulgence. Hop on a bus, step in a Boundless bubble, take a pulse of everything and everyone around you, find your...
Home Especially Sweet Home
Dear Boundless Families: I have spent an unusual amount of time teaching, hanging out and playing ping pong with your kids. It being November, they are the best game in town. About a week ago, they got into the habit of popping by the old folks home - where I work...
Getting Strong Now
Dear Boundless Families: Three weeks ago, it was the Caribbean up here. Overnight, it turned to Nunavut. But this weekend, finally, we cherished the crystal blue sky. The second session is afoot and your kids don't stop running. And thinking. And drawing. And...
A Weekend for Thanks
Dear Boundless Families: If the reader will allow a meandering river of gratitude, I would like to express some to a number of shady characters that call themselves Boundless students, and to everyone else who supports this place. To Quiche. Thank you for not...
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...