Essays about life by Motherlode Mama Gwen
By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Sometimes the best thing you can do for your work is get away from it. I know this because I’m back from a week’s vacation which […]
By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 There are only two types of people – people who like to dance and people who would rather have their eyebrows removed with a rotary sander. […]
By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 I’m keeping a dirty little secret from the kids. Sometimes when I’m checking over their homework, I pretend to go to the bathroom or go check […]
By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 I was expecting to be sad when I closed the door on my old room. Just as I anticipated, memories flashed through my mind as I […]
By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 When my kids first started school, I hoped that one day they’d learn a second language, and now they have. But they didn’t learn it in […]
By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 I got a phone call a few weeks ago when 4-year-old Kate was at a gymnastics day camp. The teacher told me there’d been an accident […]
By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 A calm settled over the house this morning at 7:45 a.m. It hasn’t been this quiet here since early June. I can hear the hum of […]
By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Tucked deep inside the human brain is a part of the anatomy yet to be officially documented by modern science. It’s a small, round filter – […]
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 […]
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