Intensive Parenting Be Damned

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...
Culminating in a Coffin

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

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...
There are Miracles, Ya Know

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, our...
Trust as Powerful as a Winter Storm

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

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 life...