Growing Bolder Community

I can still taste brick dust in my teeth! Just got back from a run to the equipment rental place to use their chop saw on site to cut just a few more (smaller) brick segments for a patio I thought was done a couple of months ago. Are home improvement projects ever REALLY done?It's mid-November here in Wisconsin, which is why the fact that it's 49 degrees out can be described as "warm" on a sunny...

While walking the beach this afternoon, I passed several small children, probably between ages 2 to 5, playing in the shallow water while their mothers watched on. There was no doubt in my mind that those children were very much aware of and attached to their mothers. Then it struck me - kids and dogs (canines if you prefer) are so much alike. Fortunately, I am writing this far away from any...

Adventure came to Hallo Bay Bear Camp on Saturday, when John (Guide) radioed to Camp from the beach that he and Christine (guest) saw a bear heading up toward Camp. Morty & Fannie (Camp Cook and Manager) and guests all came out to the mail box, and sure enough a bear was headed their direction. One of the guests, Margaret, said "Oh look, another bear." This new bear was heading our direction, too,...

Back in the day when kids put on play clothes after school and free time was not so structured, I had my best friend, Lizzie. Each afternoon till 5:00, when her family ate dinner (an hour earlier than ours), we were free to do all the stuff children did in the pre-daycare, pre-Elizabeth Smart, pre-Amber Alert days when you actually saw kids outside in neighborhoods riding bikes, playing...

The last two Monday's have been very strange to say the least.Last Monday I was doing my normal Monday stuff...grocery shopping,produce store,post office & banking. I was leaving the bank and on my way out I saw an elderly man sitting on the curb kind of swaying back and forth. I walked down the curb to ask him if he was ok an his forehead was bleeding profusely.I asked what happened and he said...

My two best friends, sisters only ten months apart in age, lived down the street. During the cold winter months we did our schoolwork together sitting at the kitchen table in my apartment or theirs. When we were done, we played board games. In the summer months, when school was out, we jumped rope, roller-skated, played hopscotch and sat on the stoop of their building or mine telling stories....

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