The Rockwood Files

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 A few days ago I did something I don’t normally do. I took two of our three kids out shopping. Typically I arrange to shop solo […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Tom did something shocking the other day. He came home from the store with a few things I’d asked him to pick up before the snowstorm […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 When I was growing up, we went to my grandparents’ little house in the country every Sunday for lunch. After lunch, I’d wander outside to visit […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 I did it again this morning – flopped my arm out onto the nightstand, reaching blindly for the alarm clock and the big button on the […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 We thought it was over. Three months ago, I wrote about a squirrel invasion in our garage and the two-week battle my husband waged against them […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Right now I’m wondering what in the heck I was thinking when I agreed to this. A few days ago, while having a wonderful lunch at […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 A few weeks ago I went to a video game store to trade in some of the old games the kids don’t play with anymore. The […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 If you’re looking for one of those peppy New Year’s blog posts, click to a new page now before I disappoint you. I just don’t have […]