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The Rockwood Files

Essays about life by Motherlode Mama Gwen

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The Rockwood Files

The Rockwood Files: The tomatoes made me do it

07/30/2011 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 I feel guilty. I’ve done a bad, bad thing. And yet I can’t say I wouldn’t do it all over again given the opportunity and the […]

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The Rockwood Files: The games we play

07/23/2011 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 It has been almost a year since Percy, the Persistent Stray Cat, insisted that we rescue her from her skinny existence in the woods. After 12 […]

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The Rockwood Files: From one mother to another

07/16/2011 nwamamas

Dear Mother Nature, Clearly, something is bothering you. Why don’t we just talk about it? Keeping your feelings bottled up like this isn’t healthy, you know, and when you get steamed, the rest of us […]

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The Rockwood Files: Worry versus Faith

07/09/2011 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 I fight this fight over and over again. In one corner sits my constant companion – worry. In the other corner, there is faith. When the […]

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The Rockwood Files: The day the iPhone died

07/02/2011 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 It was a sad, dark day. I was sitting next to my 7-year-old son Jack when it happened. He was happily playing air hockey on my […]

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The Rockwood Files: If it bleeds, it leads

06/25/2011 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Tom and I realized a long time ago that our kids, ages 9, 7 and 4, wouldn’t be able to watch much television past 7 p.m. […]

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The Rockwood Files: Time in my pocket

06/18/2011 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Yesterday we stopped at a country gas station cafe on our way home from a weekend at the lake. We slid into a booth and waited […]

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The Rockwood Files: So that’s where they get it

06/11/2011 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 I caught him again last night. It was after 10 p.m. and the hallway was dark. His door was closed, which raised suspicion. My 9-year-old son […]

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The Rockwood Files: Sifting through memory lane

06/04/2011 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 At some point, almost everyone has to go through all the stuff they acquired during childhood. Some people do it before they leave for college. Some […]

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The Rockwood Files: Love Stinks

05/28/2011 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 As reported in an earlier column, we had to say goodbye to one of our dogs recently who was so ill that we made the tough […]

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