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I made you something for Valentine’s Day. It took years, and I almost gave up. But I finally finished, wrapped it in a yellow cover, and put a big pink heart on it, just in time for February 14th. It’s a novel titled “Checked Out” — a story about growing up an…
By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Sometimes, I get angry emails. It doesn’t happen often, which is good because I don’t try to inspire irritation. But when you write for the public every week for more than 20 years, you’re b…
I’m a newspaper columnist, author, wife, mother of three extraordinary humans, and servant to the household dogs. I’ve been writing the newspaper column, The Rockwood Files, since 1996.
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