The Rockwood Files

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Yesterday, Tom and I went to Walmart Supercenter and split up to find what we needed. Ten minutes later, I got a phone call from him. […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Do you remember the old game show called “Name That Tune”? There have been plenty of spin-offs and reboots of the show, but I remember the one on […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Every summer, my mother packed my bag and dropped me off on my grandparents’ farm with a week’s worth of travel-size cereal boxes and a can […]

My warning bark pierced the morning stillness. From my defensive position by the front window, I could see and hear the beast approaching. My furry legs are short, but my ears are mighty. I’m built […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Maybe it’s hormonal. Just another cruelty in a long list of hormonal pranks the female body plays on innocent middle-aged women like me. But part of […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 The buds are blooming, the grass is greening, and my nose is sneezing, so it must be spring. And since nature is sprucing itself up so […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Some of the harshest words ever said to me never made a sound. Because they happened silently inside my head. In the melodic, wise words of […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Once upon a time, in what feels like a long, long time ago, people had questions. But they didn’t have Google. So, what did we do? […]