Rosie Colosi lives in New Jersey and is a reporter for TODAY Parents. She has bylines in The Atlantic, The Week, MSNBC, and PureWow, and she has written 33 nonfiction children's books for Scholastic, Klutz, and Nat Geo Kids. Once upon a time, she played Mrs.
James Van Der Beek's birthday celebration is made a little sweeter every year because of a special delivery from a former 'Dawson's Creek' costar. He discussed the gift in an Instagram post on March 9. 'It's my birthday and I just got a package — a FedEx that arrived today,' he explained. 'Every year on my birthday she bakes me cookies and FedExes them to me so that I get them on my birthday.
It doesn’t matter that I’m now older than she was when we first worked together, or that I’ve moved to Texas. She bakes them, and finds me, and does it from the bottom of her heart — and it always warms mine. 'Here’s to all the kind, wonderful, loving women on #internationalwomensday who — mothers or not — show the kind of love that lights up the lives of those around them.' James Van Der Beek's mother, Melinda Weber, died in July of 2020.