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The Rockwood Files: In-flight fishing
By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 I watched a man fish today at 30,000 feet above the Earth. He was sitting across the aisle one row ahead of me on an airplane […]
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Getting Healthy for Good: A series of Calgon moments
By Laurie Marshall Do you remember those commercials for Calgon that featured a woman standing in the midst of family chaos yelling “Calgon… take me away!”. The next shot shows her relaxing leisurely in a […]
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The Rockwood Files: Why I can’t renew my driver’s license yet
By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 By this time next week, I’ll be 39. The actual age doesn’t bother me much but the number is downright embarrassing. Thirty-nine sounds like it’s desperately […]
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Empty Nexter: Excuse me, what did you say?!
By Carrie Perrien Smith It’s kind of funny frolicking through this third twenty years of my life with my partner in crime. I’m an old Gen X and he’s a young Baby Boomer. We’re sitting […]
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Military Mama: What doesn’t kill us
By Jade Stone Someone once said, “What doesn’t kill us, only makes us stronger”. Sometimes, I’d like to just smack that guy in the mouth. I’m guessing that someone has never dealt with daylight savings […]
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The Rockwood Files: Sock it to me
There’s an old TV commercial for Tootsie Pops featuring a cartoon boy who poses this question to wise Mr. Owl: “How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a […]
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All Akimbo: Racing to the (c-section) finish line and running out of pants
By Kim Blakely I’m 35 weeks pregnant today. Baby Dragon apparently had a huge growth spurt in the last two weeks – huge enough to make my doctor’s eyes get really big when she measured […]
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The Rockwood Files: What introverts need most
A few years ago, I stopped turning on the car radio. At the time, it was because the kids were usually in the car with me and I didn’t want them hearing the “bump and […]
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Getting Healthy for Good: When he won’t get healthy
By Laurie Marshall A while back I mentioned that my husband was being treated for high blood pressure. Actually, there was a whole post about it. His doctor has him taking a couple of different […]
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The Rockwood Files: “You can’t handle the tooth.”
By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Early this morning, I opened my eyes and saw 7-year-old Jack’s eyes looking right at me, just inches from my face. “Mom,” he whispered. “I need […]