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The Rockwood Files: A fish story

05/27/2023 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Every summer, my mother packed my bag and dropped me off on my grandparents’ farm with a week’s worth of travel-size cereal boxes and a can […]

The Rockwood Files: The Trash Dragon Cometh

05/20/2023 nwamamas

My warning bark pierced the morning stillness. From my defensive position by the front window, I could see and hear the beast approaching. My furry legs are short, but my ears are mighty. I’m built […]

The Rockwood Files: I was dumb in the 80s

05/13/2023 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Maybe it’s hormonal. Just another cruelty in a long list of hormonal pranks the female body plays on innocent middle-aged women like me. But part of […]

The Rockwood Files: Tips for tired spring cleaners

05/06/2023 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 The buds are blooming, the grass is greening, and my nose is sneezing, so it must be spring. And since nature is sprucing itself up so […]

The Rockwood Files: Do you know VIMAH?

04/29/2023 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Some of the harshest words ever said to me never made a sound. Because they happened silently inside my head. In the melodic, wise words of […]

The Rockwood Files: Before Google had answers, this team did

04/22/2023 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Once upon a time, in what feels like a long, long time ago, people had questions. But they didn’t have Google. So, what did we do? […]

The Rockwood Files: How to get away with murder

04/15/2023 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 When a person is harmless, people say things like “Oh, she wouldn’t hurt a fly!” Around here, no one says that about me. They’ve seen me […]

The Rockwood Files: Kitchen crime scene

04/08/2023 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 At our house, we’re sensitive to things that go bump in the night (or the day). Because our 16-year-old daughter has epilepsy and has fallen in […]

The Rockwood Files: Mom, interrupted

04/01/2023 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 I can handle an interruption. I’m a married mother of three and a writer who’s been typing in the nooks and crannies of life for more […]

The Rockwood Files: Household Memo

03/25/2023 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 To Whom It May Concern (and you know who you are): It has come to my attention that there may be a misunderstanding about the meaning […]