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The Rockwood Files: A Life That’s Good
By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 I like music but I’m not as into it as many people are. I’ve written before about how I treasure those times when I’m in the […]
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The Rockwood Files: Don’t mess with my toilet paper
By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Tom did something shocking the other day. He came home from the store with a few things I’d asked him to pick up before the next […]
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The Rockwood Files: Married with cold feet
By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 When you’ve been married for a while, gifts aren’t as big a deal as they once were. There have been several times in our 15-year marriage […]
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The Rockwood Files: “Mom, what’s that supposed to mean?”
By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 As a self-admitted “word nerd,” I love it when my kids want to know what something means. The English language is such a wonderfully complicated thing, […]
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The Rockwood Files: Looking for the original
By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 I nearly had a frustrated fit in the grocery store today. There I stood, scanning a wide selection of applesauce containers looking for one thing – […]
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The Rockwood Files: A is for Apology
By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Last night I had one of those parenting moments that make you hate yourself the next day. Tom was out of town on business. I needed […]
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Empty Nexter: How to be remembered fondly — and often
By Carrie Perrien Smith Sometimes someone enters your life and weaves himself into it. That’s the way Jim was. He married my long-time friend, Kelly, eight years ago. He was a kind, cheerful, easy-going, helpful […]
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The Rockwood Files: Goodbye to an old friend
By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 A sad thing happened here a few weeks before Christmas. I didn’t write about it at the time, mostly because it’s not good to coat your […]
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The Rockwood Files: Important calls
By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 If you’re on the phone and you hear the following words, you’ll know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that what you’re hearing is a big, […]
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The Rockwood Files: New Year’s Day Downer
By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 To be honest, I’m not a huge fan of the whole New Year’s shtick. When I was single, I dreaded New Year’s Eve because there was […]