The Rockwood Files

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Last Sunday, I returned home from a 3-day trip with our 17-year-old son to visit a college campus. Tom stayed home with our other two kids […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Tomorrow I’m going to watch my 12-year-old daughter take the stage. She has spent three weeks of her summer break taking theater classes, and tomorrow I’ll […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Last night as I pulled back the covers to climb into bed, I realized what has happened. In a sense, Tom and I have traded places […]

  By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 We’re back from a trip to New York and we have the blisters to prove it. During our last night there, I took off my […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Tis the season of carry-on bags, rolling duffels, and the much-maligned fanny pack. It’s summer break, and we Americans are on the move with all our […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 When I was in college, I had a professor who often began class with a ritual. He’d shuffle to the front of the room and reach […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Today I read about a new technology that sounds completely ridiculous and perfectly rational – all at the same time. Let me explain. There’s a new […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Tonight, after a birthday dinner ending with a hot fudge sundae topped with a candle, I sat on the sofa next to Jack, our middle child […]