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The Rockwood Files: Coming of phone-age

10/25/2025 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mom of 3 I don’t know how old I was when my parents let me answer our family’s phone, but I was younger than most. In the early 1980s, […]

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The Rockwood Files: Truth in the drive-thru

10/18/2025 nwamamas

Early in September, just in time for the Labor Day weekend, Covid crashed our party. Two of our three kids had come home for the long weekend, and one of them had what looked like […]

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The Rockwood Files: Tummy time for grown-ups

10/11/2025 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Hold your head up. Not just because you’re a fine, upstanding human being. Not just because it makes you look better in photos. Do it because, […]

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The Rockwood Files: The one-eyed, no good, very bad day

10/04/2025 nwamamas

Last Thursday, I sat in a packed parking lot on a college campus teeming with people in a city of more than 100,000. But I might as well have been alone on a leaky raft […]

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The Rockwood Files: American idle

09/27/2025 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 I hear voices. There, I admitted it. And I’d bet good money you hear them, too. Here’s how it usually works: About one percent of the […]

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Laser-light vacuuming: Can you handle the truth?

09/20/2025 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 My mom and I have joint custody of a fancy vacuum cleaner. A few years ago when we both needed a new one, we decided to […]

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The Rockwood Files: Dopamine’s double life

09/13/2025 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 People are a mystery. Sometimes I’m convinced we’re all just a bunch of intricate puzzles who happen to be wearing pants. To have a decent shot […]

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The Rockwood Files: Beanie baby

09/06/2025 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 There’s a baby in the house. A tiny, orange, fuzzy baby with two green eyes, 18 pink toes, and 24 whiskers that are too long for […]

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The Rockwood Files: August came with baggage

08/30/2025 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 August has baggage. And I’m not just talking about the oppressive heat and the swamp-level humidity. The month begins with the last dregs of summer and […]

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The Rockwood Files: The close call

08/23/2025 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 There’s an easy way to tell whether or not you have an unhealthy attachment to your computer: How do you react when it might be broken? […]

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