The Rockwood Files

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Teachers often warn parents about summer “brain drain” – when weeks away from school cause multiplication tables and state capitals to fall right out of kids’ […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]