The Rockwood Files

By Gwen Rockwood, Northwest Arkansas newspaper columnist and mom of 3 We should talk about that ugly, four-lettered F-word — fear. I’m not proud of it, but fear and I spend a lot of time […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist, novelist, and mom of 3 There are two types of people – people who like to dance and people who would rather have their eyebrows removed with a rotary sander.  […]

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, […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]