The Rockwood Files

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Well, I hope you’re happy, Mom. That mama curse you put on me so long ago is now working overtime and I am, indeed, “paying for […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Here’s an ugly secret mothers try to deny, even to ourselves: Sometimes we buy our daughters a few extra things we probably shouldn’t. Is it because […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Hewlett Packard Pavilion M6000, lovingly known as “Hippy,” died on a local writer’s desk on September 7, 2012. She was almost 5 years old. After weeks […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 For years I’ve said that the main reason I became a writer is because it’s my only marketable skill. Lucky for me, I’m nerdy enough to […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Wednesday will be a good day. Because by early afternoon, the kitchen and bathroom counters will be clean, the floors shiny and there’ll be fresh vacuum […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 I’m beginning to think that, although our dog Charlie has been blessed with a super-powered Beagle nose, perhaps he didn’t get a great deal of Beagle […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 By this time next week, I’ll be sitting in a quiet house. The boys will have gone back to school and this time they’ll be taking […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 I have a theory that check-out clerks know a lot about people. And they don’t have to read tea leaves to do it. That long receipt […]