The Rockwood Files

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Last night I met my friend Shannon for dinner at a restaurant we’ve been to so often over the past 12 years that we probably know […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 One day this week I watched a news recap of the presidential political debate. The news commentators called it “messy,” with a lot of chaos and […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 I have a hangover. A bad one. But it’s not the kind that follows a night with too many cocktails. It’s a flu hangover, and it’s […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Recently I took a shower and stood under the stream of hot water trying to think up profound, writerly thoughts. But it was hard to concentrate […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 There’s a framed saying at the top of our stairway that we see each time we reach the top step. In typewriter font, it reads “Wake […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 About eight years ago, I wrote a column about how I almost never turn on the radio in the car anymore. Except for listening to the […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 A few weeks ago, a weird thing happened as I carried a bin of holiday decorations from our house to the storage closet. The cumbersome box […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Thirteen years ago, I led my son Adam into elementary school to register him for Kindergarten. I remember filling out the paperwork and noting that he […]