Essays about life by Motherlode Mama Gwen
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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