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Siobhan ConnallyThe Saratogian |
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...
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...
When I was in college, and away from home, I used to be so annoyed with my mother.“Out of sight, out of mind,” she’d say glibly. I didn’t know...
We were already sitting around the table when our son walked through the door. Strode, more like, or so I thought. He seemed to glide into the...
We ordered a drink and sat down to wait.Two pairs of friends sit across from each other at a picnic table in the brewery courtyard. The swells of warm...
Surprises always seem to sneak up on me on Sundays.Like water all over the kitchen floor, the water I thought was splatter from plunging a slow drain...
As my boy drove away from our house and toward the first day of his last year of high school, another boy, nearly a thousand miles away in Georgia,...
His face looked strained. Eyes squinting. Mouth tightened into a painful smile.His expression was transparent to anyone. My son would rather be...
I don’t know what it is lately, but the mice seem to be winning.Earlier this year, the eastern meadow vole — as field mice are called in the...
Another moving day. The fourth time in two years. Dorm life, she has been warned, would be somewhat nomadic. She had taken to heart administrative...
It’s 11:30 on a Thursday morning when I knock once and open his bedroom door. I have been awake since dawn flitting between duties of home and...
Why is everything such a chore? I ask myself this at least twice a day usually while I’m doing something exasperating like … a chore. “How many...
There was no denying it; President Biden’s debate performance was less than ideal. He looked haggard and sounded flustered. His age was on full...
The three of us were about to head to Maine. It is a trip we’d taken so many times over the last seventeen years that I imagined, the kids, now that...
The first day of summer coincided with a heat wave that had undulated between the low 70s and the high 90s for three days. I hate this weather. I’ve...
Every time the phone rings, I say a little prayer. Not a literal prayer with words for gods or saints who may be listening from the heavens. But an...
As a kid, I remember begging my father to let me mow the lawn. It was a chore that girl children didn’t usually pull from the roster of odd jobs via...
Bedtime was near. I could sense it without looking at my watch or considering the color of the sky outside the window. Despite the upbeat music and...
I miss her face. I knew I would. Even 20 years ago, when she was born, and none of us slept, and I went to work one day — got all the way up two...
The weekend plans had been in the works for months. Six of my running friends and I had signed up for a spring half marathon featuring two challenging...
Why can’t we just say what we want? What we really want. We all tend to think if we did, life would be better. That’s not always the case. The...
“Wanna go out?” For a second I floundered. As I stood in the kitchen, gazing absently into a refrigerator packed to its edges with leftovers...
It was mid-afternoon on an otherwise ordinary Monday for us “work-from-homers.” But for my son, who was lounging around the house in his PJs, it...
As I listened to oral arguments in a case before the Supreme Court concerning Mifepristone, one of two drugs often used in combination, and commonly...
I had trained my camera on my husband. He had been lying in bed beside me, head propped up on a pillow while our black cat draped herself over his...
While she packs the car, I check the weather. Though it won’t change our path any, my heart is lighter knowing we won’t have to contend with snow...
In the big picture, we want to take maternal health seriously. We want to minimize harm to our nation’s pregnant and postpartum patients. And...
The conversation was heading in an awkward direction, as conversations about religion and politics often do. My mouth was ready to cast off a...
I thought about the bills I had tucked in my pocket. It was money I had considered saving … or spending on pizza. I hadn’t yet decided. I knew I...
“Did you see what I sent you?” He’s usually sitting on the couch next to me as we divide our attention between three different screens and...
The unnamed roadways on the Island De Vieques pushed northward in steep elevation along the coastline, and I pushed myself up their pockmarked...
The temperature got warmer all of a sudden. Up until that moment during the three-and-a-half-hour flight, the plane had felt drafty and frigid. I...
I know I wasn’t hallucinating. I had been under the influence of sedation, but I had concrete proof. Five years ago, after my first big milestone...
Tomorrow we will sleep in. That’s the plan, anyway. Tonight we are neither on guard nor on our best behavior. There will be at least four cheeky...
The house looks like it always does. There are mountains of clean laundry piled on chairs throughout the downstairs rooms waiting to be folded. Dishes...
Who is that woman? Her hair, frizzy and dry, was a tri-blend of color that needed … at the very least … a bit of attention. She looked vaguely...