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The Rockwood Files

Essays about life by Motherlode Mama Gwen

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The Rockwood Files: Raised right

03/18/2017 nwamamas

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 […]

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The Rockwood Files: What do you have in common with your dog?

03/11/2017 nwamamas

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 […]

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The Rockwood Files: Tribute to the nimble thimble

03/04/2017 nwamamas

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 […]

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The Rockwood Files: A Tale of Two Trips

02/25/2017 nwamamas

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 […]

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The Rockwood Files: Soup saves the day

02/18/2017 nwamamas

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 […]

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The Rockwood Files: Confessions of a love story addict

02/11/2017 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 I did it again last night – stayed up way too late in the name of love. A rerun of a romantic comedy I’ve seen at […]

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The Rockwood Files: Salad Fatigue

02/04/2017 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 A few days ago, my friend Shannon and I went to lunch. In an attempt to change our ways and counterbalance the sugar-laden excesses of the […]

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The Rockwood Files: Bossy bikini pushers

01/28/2017 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 I’m a planner by nature, so I understand the need to “get out in front” of something. But when I opened the Target sales circular this […]

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The Rockwood Files: Digital memory lane

01/21/2017 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 If you’re on Facebook or save digital pictures online, you probably get the same emails I do – the ones that show photo memories taken on […]

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The Rockwood Files: Spicing up the New Year

01/14/2017 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 I don’t have it all together and, most of the time, I feel like an imposter pretending to be a grown-up. But you’d never know it […]

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