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Watson: Friend forever in my memory
Published 5/20/2012 at 12:00 a.m. 0 comments
Today is my friend's birthday. And I haven't a clue where she is.
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Watson: A face only a mom could love
Published 5/6/2012 at 12:00 a.m. 0 comments
At only one point in my life did I subject myself to some stupid tanning tricks.
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Watson: Myriad pitfalls await careless posters
Published 4/22/2012 at 12:00 a.m. 1 comment
Had Facebook been around in the 19th century, Mark Twain might have said: "It is better to refrain from posting on Facebook and let people think you are a fool than to allow your status update to remove all doubt."
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Watson: Keep your clubs in the bag, Petrino
Published 4/15/2012 at 12:00 a.m. 2 comments
Let me get this straight.
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Watson: Act of kindness swells this family's heart
Published 4/8/2012 at 12:00 a.m. 2 comments
Every Easter since I became a mother, I've found a sweet little treat on my front porch.
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Watson: Main stream media late-comers in publicizing killing
Published 4/1/2012 at 12:00 a.m. 17 comments
Don't let folks try to convince you that the only reason the world knows the name Trayvon Martin is because the liberal media wanted to shove it down your throat.
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Watson: Relentless perseverance meets stubborn ideology
Published 3/25/2012 at 12:00 a.m. 7 comments
At least once a week, sometimes twice, I want to ask a certain letter writer, "Do you like beating your head against the wall?"
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Watson: Rhyme and reason out the door when naming children
Published 3/11/2012 at 12:00 a.m. 0 comments
I was almost a Carol. That's what my father wanted. Carol Fran.
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Watson: Friend's health scare halts fretting
Published 2/26/2012 at 12:00 a.m. 2 comments
This has been one of those weeks that change your life.
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Watson: Another insensitive TV personality sticks foot in mouth
Published 2/12/2012 at 12:00 a.m. 1 comment
Roland Martin, meet Gilbert Gottfried. Perhaps when the CNN political contributor blurted out, among friends at a Super Bowl party, his opinions on an underwear commercial aired during the big game, he hadn't remembered what happened to the voice of ...
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Watson: Real-life stories more compelling
Published 2/5/2012 at 12:00 a.m. 2 comments
The climatic scene in "The Natural," where Roy Hobbs, bleeding into his stark-white jersey, hits the winning home run into the stadium lights and rounds the bases beneath explosions of glass and gas, remains one of the most iconic endings ...
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Watson: Cart-before-horse commentors face the music
Published 1/29/2012 at 12:02 a.m. 66 comments
Someone, most likely my grandmother, told me to always behave as if three people were watching: your mother, your boss and God.
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Watson: Gruesome pictures not fit for publication
Published 1/22/2012 at 12:02 a.m. 0 comments
The passer-by who took photos of a severed head found beneath the Hollywood sign last week may seem like a rather morbid, opportunistic character, but some editors might call him something else: A freelancer.
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Watson: Words thought long forgotten resurrected
Updated 1/14/2012 at 11:36 p.m. 4 comments
The headline screamed of days gone by, but sadly those days are still here.
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Watson: Both sides of the aisle guilty of finagling the rules to suit them
Published 1/8/2012 at 12:00 a.m. 0 comments
If I behaved as the majority of our representatives in Washington, D.C., I'd never be asked to serve on another nonprofit board again.
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