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Siobhan ConnallyThe Saratogian |
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...