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Laura Scarborough
@nicurnmama.bsky.social
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she/her, wife, mother of legends, Retired NICU nurse, Peloton fanatic, mamarazzi, OG blogger who still writes about my Adventures in Juggling

https://adventuresinjuggling.substack.com/
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Father’s Day weekend - there are all kinds of emotions all over the place around here. So much heavy sadness, also gratitude. Wrote a little bit about it.
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June 21, 2026 at 4:06 AM
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One week later, finally putting into words everything and anything I was feeling on me remembering my darling husband on what would have been our 43rd wedding anniversary , as well as a small book review.
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the not so merry month of May
May has always been a wonderful, often celebratory month in the life of my family circus. There has been for what feels like forever, the whole Maycember end of school year frenzy – yes, even…
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May 22, 2026 at 7:07 AM
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Officially no longer a licensed Registered Nurse but always a nurse.

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always a nurse
As I sit down to begin to write this post it is Nurses Day and the beginning of Nurses Week – ignore the hospital administrations that now refer to it as Hospital Workers Week or Healthcare H…
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May 7, 2026 at 5:20 AM
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Making good use of my time while on a train. Also, I finally wrote something this month.
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life lately
“No one ever told me about the laziness of grief. Except at my job – where the machine seems to run as much as usual – I loathe the slightest effort. Not only writing but even rea…
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February 27, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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Rituals comfort, heal and guide us as we navigate our grief.
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January 20, 2026 at 5:31 AM
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Manifesting
Casting all the spells
You know…
January 12, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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Did hard things today:
Chartered a boat for our family to scatter my darling husband’s ashes in a few months.
Went shopping at Trader Joes - on a Sunday (!) - and engaged in lively conversation as they rang up and bagged my groceries.
Clap for me.
January 11, 2026 at 11:59 PM
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Our favorite son is 24 today.
January 11, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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Sometimes the daily reminders that remind you the love of your life is gone also just remind you of the love of your life and you just can’t delete them and that’s okay. But thanks for the the how to advice.

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January 4, 2026 at 8:13 AM
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Girl dinner New Year’s Day style.
January 2, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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And as Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper greet 2026 in NYC, I have written down some good things that happened in this horrible year 2025.
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desperately seeking something good
It is not lost on me that 2025 has been the most difficult, sucktastic year for pretty much everyone in my circles. I have been reminding myself of this truth over the last few days, hours and minu…
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January 1, 2026 at 5:17 AM
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Message from one of my kids announcing they made the last car payment on the car they bought by themselves makes me smile and whisper to my husband’s memory, “look at our kid, babe, they’re adulting!”
December 31, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Delirious over that glowing orb in the sky today over the Central Valley in California, I wrote about it.
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here comes the sun
Since Bill died, it feels as if most of the light has gone. Actually, it has gone in my corner of California as we have been blanketed by a persistent Tule fog for more than three weeks. Everything…
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December 17, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Wrote something - more like word vomit. Most folks who follow me on social media already know most of it. Nevertheless, I wrote it and hit publish.
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the day he died
Lets not bury the lede, okay? My darling husband died November 7. Yeah. Most folk who regularly check into this site (or the Substack) who also follow me on social media already know this. Neverthe…
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November 30, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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For the 1st time in 35 years I am not spending my Labor Day with laboring pregnant people as they give birth to brand new tiny humans. But I did get to bear witness to this moment of goodness and hope.
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the joy in bearing witness
It’s Labor Day today and, for the first time in 35 years, I am not at work with laboring pregnant people as they welcome into this world brand new humans.
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September 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Grand baby’s first peaceful protest. My Mima heart is full.

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stories to tell the grandchildren
Not going to lie but last week felt heavy and hard living in this fascist regime; and then I received a text.
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June 17, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Turns out there are actually more than 3 or 4 songs about being 17. Also the one who named me is turning 17.
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oh why are girls in songs always seventeen?
As I begin to write this, the grandchild who named me Mima is quite literally on the edge of seventeen.
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June 7, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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The more I read about AB Hernandez and the strength and grace this kid has under the most hateful pressure, the more I am impressed with this young athlete.
Also massive respect for Hernandez’s competitors who also have shown the same and support for Hernandez.
June 1, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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building a soul
Last month I alluded of home improvement plans my darling husband and I were about to begin — partly for accountability and perhaps partly to declare that you, the readers of this newsletter, are my w...
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May 31, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Of course this regime has a “Pardon Czar”!
a woman sits at a desk with her hand on her chin and a picture of a police officer behind her
ALT: a woman sits at a desk with her hand on her chin and a picture of a police officer behind her
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May 27, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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YES MORE OF THIS
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · May 27
Pete Hegseth’s Defense Department tried to bar a CNN journalist from serving as a pool reporter for an upcoming foreign trip.

Other reporters threatened to boycott the trip.

Guess what happened next.

The Pentagon caved.

Via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social

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I've learned that in the lead-up to Hegseth's upcoming trip to Singapore, the Pentagon quietly attempted to block CNN producer Haley Britzky from serving as the designated television pooler. Because space on such trips is limited, the press corps designates a small group of reporters to travel with the secretary and share information with the broader press. Britzky had been slated for the role. But Pentagon officials- apparently irked by some of her tweets, despite their innocuous nature - relayed to CNN brass that she was not welcome. The move was a plain act of retribution, a targeted attempt by the Pentagon to sideline a journalist for doing her job in a way that it did not like. It triggered immediate backlash. Reporters from other news organizations expressed outrage, with other outlets indicating that if Britzky was excluded, they too would pull out of the trip—effectively denying Hegseth the press coverage he relies on for visibility. “They don’t get to decide who covers them,” one correspondent told me. After a brief standoff, I'm told the Pentagon relented. Britzky will travel with Hegseth as originally planned. A CNN spokesperson declined to comment and a Pentagon spokesperson did not respond to a request for one Monday evening.
May 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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All week I could not stop thinking about Dr. Biden in this picture and then I remembered why.
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I've seen that face before
This week marks the anniversary for us which reminds us that the month of May is not just the celebration of so much goodness in our family’s life.
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May 23, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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The month of May is always busy and a little chaotic, but in the very best way and wouldn’t have it any other way.
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not something old
It seems that every time the month of May rolls in I end up writing about what a busy season it is for us filled with all kinds of events colliding together — because it really is for us.
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May 18, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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My darling husband and I built something and it makes me so happy.
May 17, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Now to find the perfect blue dress with pockets- must. have. pockets. #motherofthebride
May 11, 2025 at 6:15 AM