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Short Pilates workouts to try at home

01/05/2026

We found a great article on the Well+Good website which has short instructional Pilates videos for a week-long plan. The videos range in length from 10 to 30 minutes, and there’s one for beginners, too. [...]
The Rockwood Files: Coming of phone-age

10/25/2025

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mom of 3 I don’t know how old I was when my parents let me answer our family’s phone, but I was younger than most. In the early 1980s, [...]
The Rockwood Files: Tummy time for grown-ups

10/11/2025

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Hold your head up. Not just because you’re a fine, upstanding human being. Not just because it makes you look better in photos. Do it because, [...]
The Rockwood Files: The one-eyed, no good, very bad day

10/04/2025

Last Thursday, I sat in a packed parking lot on a college campus teeming with people in a city of more than 100,000. But I might as well have been alone on a leaky raft [...]
Tired of the whining? Try this.

09/24/2025

There’s nothing that sucks the energy out of the day quite like a whiny kid. It’s one of those behaviors that can quickly become the normal way of communicating, if we’re not careful. You can [...]

What We’re Reading: Christmas books to read with the kids

12/10/2025

by Sara Treat Chance, reading specialist, educator, and local mother of 3 Often in a good book, we either see glimpses of ourselves (a mirror), or lives foreign to ours (a window). Both are great [...]
Giveaway: Tickets to Mrs. Doubtfire at Walton Arts Center December 19th

11/10/2025

One of the most famous babysitters of all time is coming to the stage at Walton Arts Center this December. This week we’re giving away 4 tickets to see “Mrs. Doubtfire,” the musical, at Walton [...]
The Rockwood Files: My relationship with a four-letter F-word

11/08/2025

By Gwen Rockwood, Northwest Arkansas newspaper columnist and mom of 3 We should talk about that ugly, four-lettered F-word — fear. I’m not proud of it, but fear and I spend a lot of time [...]
What We’re Reading: Culpability by Bruce Holsinger

10/22/2025

This month’s book recommendation, titled Culpability, is as timely as they come. It’s a story that revolves around what happens when a family takes a trip to their son’s field hockey game, traveling in a [...]
How to clean the dog’s ears

10/06/2025

Is it time to clean the dog’s ears? If they look or smell a little funky, it’s probably time. We found this great video on YouTube with some clear step-by-step instructions for how to do [...]

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