The Rockwood Files

Dear Miley Cyrus, Oh, honey. I’m not even sure what to say. Like the millions of people who’ve seen the video of your performance at the Music Video Awards show, I’m still a little stunned. […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 For the past few weeks, I’ve been ping-ponging between two internal monologues. The first one goes like this: “Oh, I love the summer and how the […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Alaina, Christy, Jennifer and I grew up together in a small southern Arkansas town. We survived puberty and junior high school together. We cruised around in […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Most men don’t fully understand this, but sometimes a woman walks into a room in her house and knows, with certainty, that something has GOT to […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 There’s a bird in our house. And even though he has no wings and can’t fly, we can’t take our eyes off him. He is a […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 When I was in second grade, one of my classmates told me I was going to Hell. I remember the moment vividly. We were on the […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 One of my main goals as a parent is to raise non-whiners. It’s not easy. We’re all inclined to whine when things don’t go our way. […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 When we say parenting has its “ups and downs,” sometimes we mean it literally – particularly after spending a weekend at an amusement park with the […]