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The Rockwood Files: A Letter to Miley Cyrus

09/07/2013 nwamamas

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. […]

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The Rockwood Files: The quiet house

08/31/2013 nwamamas

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 […]

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Empty Nexter: No honey, you can’t retire yet

08/30/2013 nwamamas

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 […]

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The Rockwood Files: Hanging with my peeps

08/24/2013 nwamamas

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 […]

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Life with Ladybug: Of concerts and middle school

08/22/2013 nwamamas

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 […]

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The Rockwood Files: Seeing spots

08/17/2013 nwamamas

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 […]

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The Rockwood Files: Drinking bird finds a home

08/10/2013 nwamamas

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 […]

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The Rockwood Files: You Be The Judge

08/03/2013 nwamamas

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 […]

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The Rockwood Files: No time for whine

07/27/2013 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 One of my main goals as a parent is to raise non-whiners. It’s not easy. We’re all inclined to whine when things don’t go our way. […]

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The Rockwood Files: Too old to ride the scary stuff?

07/20/2013 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 When we say parenting has its “ups and downs,” sometimes we mean it literally – particularly after spending a weekend at an amusement park with the […]

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