The Rockwood Files

By Gwen Rockwood, syndicated columnist and mama of 3 Of all the questions Americans grapple with, there’s one that pops up more frequently than the rest: “Where do you want to go eat?” Deciding should […]

By Gwen Rockwood, syndicated columnist and mama of 3 Well, we did it. We thought about it for a long time but something always held us back – vanity, frugality, perhaps a desperate grip on […]

By Gwen Rockwood, syndicated columnist and mama of 3 Last week I wrote a column called “Ways to know someone has been raised right,” and I added three things to the list. Here are three […]

We went to dinner recently with my parents at a restaurant where you place an order at the counter and then get your own drink. Tom and I were pulling extra chairs up to a […]

People say that, not only do you start looking like your spouse over time, you also start looking like your dog. In an experiment, people can often match up dogs with their owners simply by […]

Another small piece of my childhood will soon be a victim of so-called progress. While reading the news last week, I stumbled across an article that said Hasbro, which makes the board game Monopoly, is […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 “It was the loudest of times, it was a stretch of silence. It was the age of babies, it was the epoch of earbuds.” This tale […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 This morning was one of those mornings. I woke up with the kind of headache that’s just annoying enough to keep me slightly on edge. I […]