Archive for 'About the Mamas' Category
Meet Rhonda
Okay, mamas. Meet Rhonda. She’s my friend and also my hair stylist. I met her years ago through another friend whose hair consistently looked so healthy and fabulous that it was starting to secretly tick me off. So instead of envying my friend’s good hair fortune, I finally asked her who was cutting her hair. [...]
Meet Andi
Our new make-up queen is Andrea Douglas. Feel free to e-mail Andi your beauty-related questions via mamas@nwaMotherlode.com. We asked Andi to write a little bit about how she ended up in Northwest Arkansas and how her love affair with make-up began. From Andi: When I married my husband, a native Arkansan, we relocated from fast-paced [...]
Meet Shannon
My heart belongs to a sweet (and salty) 7-year-old daughter I call Ladybug. I’m a former reporter for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, (Northwest Edition) but have been a freelance writer for quite a few years now. Gwen Rockwood and I launched nwaMotherlode.com in May 2008. In doing so, we combined three of our passions: motherhood, writing [...]
About Gwen
I’m the mama of 3 little ones – 7-year-old Adam, 4-year-old Jack and 2-year-old Kate. But long before the babies came along, I took a job as a receptionist in the newsroom of the Northwest Arkansas Times in Fayetteville, Arkansas. I was fresh out of college and, after several months of paying my dues typing [...]
