Tag: watson
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July 18, 2023
FAVORITE QUESTION OF THE WEEK I was walking in the neighborhood when a woman shouted from her front porch, “Kate! My daughter is a huge Mercy Watson fan and she wanted to ask you a question. Can you wait a minute?” “Yes,” I said. I stood on the sidewalk and watched as a very young…
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April 5, 2022
A letter from Austin, who is in second grade and was told to write about his favorite Mercy Watson character: “I choose Baby Lincoln. Do you know why I choose Baby? Because she is happy. Do you know why she is happy? Because she loves Mercy Watson and also other people and that is why…
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February 7, 2022
Porcine wonder fans. . . We are one week away from some pretty exciting Mercy Watson news. Announcement next Monday! Reactions: 5K Comments: 281 Original Post
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July 7, 2021
Yesterday on a walk, a woman stopped me and said: “Can I tell you? My three year old was so upset last night and she kept on saying the same sentence over and over ‘I want to go the Watson’s house.’ And I kept saying ‘We don’t know any Watsons.’ And finally she screamed, ‘Toast!…
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April 2, 2019
My mother, Betty, was an only child. She grew up during the Great Depression when babies sometimes got left in baskets on people’s doorsteps. Every morning, when she was a kid, my mother would open the front door, hoping that someone had left a baby—a brother or a sister for her to love. And so,…
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March 21, 2019
I get a lot of letters about Mercy Watson, and a lot of suggestions for Mercy Watson stories. Some of my favorites: Mercy Watson Meets Moby Dick Mercy Watson Gets Visited by the IRS Mercy Watson Solves a Mystery By Mistake And last week, a new favorite arrived: Mercy Watson Got Swallowed by a Python…