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Yankee Doodle Soup – by Scott Marsland, FNP-C
[ad_1] The pandemic was rough on us “right-wing anti-vaxxers.”(Who knew being consistently right would be so exhausting?)You might have felt alone at times—but you never were.Meet your tribe.Yankee Doodle Soup is a collection of essays by a diverse group of writers...
Preggers – by Scott Marsland, FNP-C
[ad_1] Helen Boyd Marsland and Walter Stanley Marsland, Jr (my Pop pop)PASTA refrain which I heard frequently as a child was that I was “just looking for attention.” I had some intuition that this wasn’t a bad thing, but it was framed as just that by some of the...
Little grey cells – by Scott Marsland, FNP-C
[ad_1] PASTToday I have a facility with numbers and finances, but that wasn’t always the case. When I was a boy, I delivered papers for the New Britain Herald. It was an afternoon paper, back when there were such things. In my substack Capital C Characters, I wrote...
From Russia with love – by Scott Marsland, FNP-C
[ad_1] PASTMe at Camp Harmony, Spring 1992This story takes us back to my adventures with the Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS), as recounted in Hot Mess Express. After my excommunication from the San Antonio Catholic Worker House, I became sick as a dog for a week....
A day in the life
[ad_1] Taking a break from writing Lightning Bug every week since October 2023 has been helpful, in order to rest, ponder and organize ideas in my mind. I like noticing what bubbles up to the top. Today’s post is a nod to one of my favorite Beatles songs, but also a...
Where is God? – by Scott Marsland, FNP-C
[ad_1] PROLOGUEWriting has held solace and meaning for me since I was a boy, sending and receiving letters to my Pop pop, Aunt Julie and Grandma Jones. In ninth and twelfth grades I had a superb English teacher named Kate Forney. Never do I put pen to paper without...
Are we there yet? – by Scott Marsland, FNP-C
[ad_1] DISTANT PASTMarsland Thanksgiving 1977My family moved from Horsham, PA to West Hartford, CT in 1973. For the next six years, we would make trips back to Pennsylvania for holidays such as Easter, occasionally Christmas, but always Thanksgiving. The Marsland clan...
Love and marriage – by Scott Marsland, FNP-C
[ad_1] Waiting with other couples outside City Hall to get marriedLove and MarriageThree things have me thinking about love and marriage this week: a few tough conversations with my wife Kerrie, the recent second marriage of a close colleague, and the death of a...
Cancer: adjunctive care – by Scott Marsland, FNP-C
[ad_1] For nearly six months, Pierre and I have been seeing patients for adjunctive cancer care. In one week, as of 8/12/24, our adjunctive cancer care will be augmented Dr Sid Lawler, an internist with more than twenty years of clinical practice. The Leading Edge...
