The Rockwood Files

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 When you’ve been married for a while, gifts aren’t as big a deal as they once were. There have been several times in our 15-year marriage […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 As a self-admitted “word nerd,” I love it when my kids want to know what something means. The English language is such a wonderfully complicated thing, […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 I nearly had a frustrated fit in the grocery store today. There I stood, scanning a wide selection of applesauce containers looking for one thing – […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Last night I had one of those parenting moments that make you hate yourself the next day. Tom was out of town on business. I needed […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 A sad thing happened here a few weeks before Christmas. I didn’t write about it at the time, mostly because it’s not good to coat your […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 If you’re on the phone and you hear the following words, you’ll know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that what you’re hearing is a big, […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 To be honest, I’m not a huge fan of the whole New Year’s shtick. When I was single, I dreaded New Year’s Eve because there was […]

Note: This column was written earlier this month during that LONG snowy week out of school. Enjoy. Sure, I was dreaming of a white Christmas. We all were. It had been about two years since […]