Kathryn Watson

citizen. journalist. reporting from the lower hudson valley. email tips/leads/local happenings to [email protected].

[Kathryn Watson @kateupstate]

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[Plain Runner @plainrunner2]

If I could go back… just to read stories and jump in leaves and set up trees with them. I’m grateful for where we are as a family (my oldest is 29), but those years when we were all under one roof for Christmastime will remain the place I wander to when I wonder. May God give you blessed memories of these days.

Look back. Look around. Look ahead.

Most importantly, look up.

[Matthew Loftus @matthew_loftus]

Eagerly awaiting one of those tradwife influencer accounts to post a Christmas morning video where their kids get the Laura Ingalls Wilder gift haul: a new tin cup, a stick of peppermint candy, a small sugar cake and a shiny, bright new penny.

[Kathryn Watson @kateupstate]

I'm either going to lose my mind or write an essay about the Skibidi Toilet Fortnite collab, there is nothing in between

[Kathryn Watson @kateupstate]

@abbyjperry cant believe i found out this happened over twitter, this at least deserved a voxer

[Kathryn Watson @kateupstate]

@EM_RESUS "No one will ever care about your own health more than you do."

[Kathryn Watson @kateupstate]

If you want #localnews to cover your group's event:
1) Find an editor or regular contributor to email directly
2) Explain the community relevance
3) SEND THEM QUOTES even if they're coming to cover
4) Offer to send photos after the event
5) Andddd you're in the paper

[Edward L Hamilton @EdwardLHamilton]

Two choices:
1) Build a society that honors the value of helpless people AND those who care for them, or

2) End up in a society that celebrates a Darwinian culling of the weak (abortion, euthanasia, eugenics)

Zero-sum. If you aren't doing the former, you're doing the latter.

[Josh Hochschild @JoshHochschild]

Discussing this poem in class, a student made a remarkably self-aware comment, to the effect: “At my age this isn’t my idea of what to look forward to in life, but I could imagine it becoming what I look forward to.”

[Leah Libresco Sargeant @LeahLibresco]

If you are indifferent to disorder and threats on public transit, you are saying that public transit is not for:

-women
-children
-the elderly
-other vulnerable members of the public

[Kathryn Watson @kateupstate]

X! A website for PARENTS.

[Kathryn Watson @kateupstate]

Was very active on Twitter for four years; got off completely for four years. Obviously stuff happened here in between but one of the biggest changes to this website that I'm noticing is that so many of you guys posting became parents.

[Kathryn Watson @kateupstate]

@garonnevik A beautiful tribute. I'm sorry for your loss.

[Kathryn Watson @kateupstate]

Yesterday I accepted that Christmas is coming, and there's nothing I can do about it. As a mom of three, this is...less than ideal.

[Kathryn Watson @kateupstate]

The #ToysforTots effort in #PutnamCounty is remarkable. I got the chance to talk to chapter organizer, Col. James Maxwell, about how he got involved, who gets these toys, and what makes a good donation.
https://t.co/rPw8UoNfCy

[Kathryn Watson @kateupstate]

Every pregnant person in America should be aware of this.

https://t.co/kfD36HUY2D

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

Yet more reasons to roll back the trend for the school day to be dominated by Chromebooks and iPads.

[Kathryn Watson @kateupstate]

@CultureCrave nature is healing.

[alex ☆ @okagalex]

i hate to agree with the old heads but it really is the phones like 😭 no one is well

[Kathryn Watson @kateupstate]

Friends in the lower Hudson Valley, what are your can't-miss holiday events to do with kids in this area? Tonight's parade/tree lighting at Lake Gleneida has such Stars Hollow vibes, I wonder what else I'm missing! #westchestercounty #putnamcounty #dutchesscounty