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Siobhan ConnallyThe Saratogian |



































You’re flat on your back, staring up at some caged-in lights, hands grasping textured metal, trying to follow directions.“You got this.”I wanted to...






Almost there. The crossroad is up ahead.Will I? Won’t I?“Ugh. …”I throw on my car’s directional indicator and hang a right into the gas...

“Happy BIRTHDAY!”This was a most auspicious occasion. On this day my Ittybit, a child born to me roundabout YESTERDAY, reached the age of...

It’s getting late.I’ve procrastinated my practice run for a cookie exchange experiment. Conventional wisdom warns I’ll need a second coming....

The deadline for submissions of pictures for the high school yearbook was at hand, and the boy had pushed off deciding.I didn’t want to pressure...

For days, a flurry of text messages pinged my phone at all hours.College roommates had planned an impromptu “Rhode” trip, and they asked me to...

Before I was bereft, I was annoyed.No one wanted to cook, so I improvised. I made “sammiches”: toast, lettuce, tomato, bacon, and cheese.I had been...

We stood in line outside the polling place – one of two in the county dedicated to early voting. The line wasn’t budging. We shifted from one foot...

Not long after the woman at the reception desk checked us in, she offered to schedule the boy’s sixth-month cleaning.I hesitated. The moment...

When New Yorkers cast their ballots in the 2024 election, they will have an opportunity to strengthen the State Constitution’s current equal...
