Mom Blogs:

Dear Miley Cyrus, Oh, honey. I’m not even sure what to say. Like the millions of people who’ve seen the video of your performance at the Music Video Awards show, I’m still a little stunned. […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 For the past few weeks, I’ve been ping-ponging between two internal monologues. The first one goes like this: “Oh, I love the summer and how the […]

By Carrie Perrien Smith The last thirty days have been full of milestones. We just celebrated my husband’s sixty-first birthday, the fifteenth anniversary of his proposal to me, his thirty-year service anniversary with Walmart, and […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Alaina, Christy, Jennifer and I grew up together in a small southern Arkansas town. We survived puberty and junior high school together. We cruised around in […]

A few weeks ago, I took my tweeny-bopper to her first concert with a few friends — one of mine and  one of hers (plus a little sister). Taylor Swift rocked the BOK in Tulsa […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Most men don’t fully understand this, but sometimes a woman walks into a room in her house and knows, with certainty, that something has GOT to […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 There’s a bird in our house. And even though he has no wings and can’t fly, we can’t take our eyes off him. He is a […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 When I was in second grade, one of my classmates told me I was going to Hell. I remember the moment vividly. We were on the […]