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Siobhan Connally’s Ittybits & Pieces: Cat’s in the Cradle and the Golden Years

Siobhan Connally’s Ittybits & Pieces: Cat’s in the Cradle and the Golden Years
15.02.2025 3

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Siobhan Connally’s Ittybits & Pieces: Adult education

Siobhan Connally’s Ittybits & Pieces: Adult education
02.02.2025 10

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Siobhan Connally’s Ittybits & Pieces: Keeping the faith

26.01.2025 50

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Siobhan Connally’s Ittybits & Pieces: Home, gym

19.01.2025 3

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Siobhan Connally’s Ittybits & Pieces: Fueling stations

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...

04.01.2025 1

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Siobhan Connally’s Ittybits & Pieces: No good deed

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

21.12.2024 3

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Siobhan Connally’s Ittybits & Pieces: Slouching toward Bethlehem

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

14.12.2024 4

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Siobhan Connally’s Ittybits & Pieces: Yearbook pictures

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...

07.12.2024 3

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Siobhan Connally’s Ittybits & Pieces: ‘Rhode’ trip

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...

16.11.2024 2

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Siobhan Connally’s Ittybits & Pieces: November surprise

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...

09.11.2024 2

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Siobhan Connally’s Ittybits & Pieces: Ding, dong, vote

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...

02.11.2024 3

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Siobhan Connally’s Ittybits & Pieces: The Jinx

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...

26.10.2024 3

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Siobhan Connally’s Ittybits & Pieces: Protecting our rights

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

19.10.2024 4

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Siobhan Connally’s Ittybits & Pieces: Answering the call

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...

12.10.2024 3

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Siobhan Connally’s Ittybits & Pieces: Future Forward

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...

28.09.2024 2

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Siobhan Connally’s Ittybits & Pieces: Date night

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...

21.09.2024 2

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Siobhan Connally’s Ittybits & Pieces: What’s an arch nemesis among friends

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...

14.09.2024 2

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Siobhan Connally’s Ittybits & Pieces: Even one is too many

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,...

07.09.2024 2

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Siobhan Connally’s Ittybits & Pieces: He owes her one (smile)

His face looked strained. Eyes squinting. Mouth tightened into a painful smile.His expression was transparent to anyone. My son would rather be...

31.08.2024 2

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Siobhan Connally’s Ittybits & Pieces: The passing of the torch

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...

24.08.2024 2

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