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So much exciting reading ahead! Two cross-genre projects and a sheaf of fresh Christmas titles stand out among the new books added this month to the South Cheatham County Public Library.
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This is the Feb. 28, 2020, excerpt from “Stardust: An Alzheimer's Love Story,” my day to day accounts of caring for my wife Norma in the advanced stages of her dementia. She is tense with frustration. There's something she must tell me, and it will not
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This is the Feb. 20, 2020, excerpt from “Stardust: An Alzheimer's Love Story,” my day to day accounts of caring for my wife Norma in the advanced stages of her dementia. I can lead Norma to water, but I can't make her drink. And I'
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Robert Langdon is on the run again. You may have seen him glancing nervously over his shoulder as he picked up a takeout lunch at El Jardin or cadged a ride in one of the big rigs pulling out of Thornton's. If not there, you surely can find
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This is the Feb. 16, 2020, excerpt from “Stardust: An Alzheimer's Love Story,” my day to day accounts of caring for my wife Norma in the advanced stages of her dementia. “Ed, you break my heart.” My delight that Norma is able to utter a complete sentence is
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This is the Feb. 10, 2020, excerpt from “Stardust: An Alzheimer's Love Story,” my day to day accounts of caring for my wife Norma in the advanced stages of her dementia. “I want to go home,” she says impatiently, as if we've been dawdling on our
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This is the Jan. 22, 2020 excerpt from “Stardust: An Alzheimer's Love Story,” my day to day accounts of caring for my wife, Norma, in the advanced stages of her dementia. I think I hear her footsteps and hope I'm wrong. “Hello?” Her voice sounds tentative,
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It’s gonna take a bigger beach to accommodate all the new beach reading material rolling into the Kingston Springs Library this month.
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This is an Oct. 16, 2019 excerpt from "Stardust: An Alzheimer's Love Story", my day to day accounts of caring for my wife in the advanced stages of her dementia. Learn more about this series in last week's column. I miss romance, which I
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When it became evident around 2016 that my wife, Norma Morris, was descending into dementia and was at risk living alone in her Kingston Springs home, I abandoned my apartment in Nashville and moved in to be her principal caregiver. (We had lived separately but companionably for the previous 35
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There are those who rely on streaming services for their home entertainment. But not me. Instead of streaming, I opt for stream-of-consciousness, of letting my mind wander unhurried along the infinite paths my memory opens up. You can have your Netflix. I'm going with Edflix. Take the other
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The South Cheatham County Public Library's Summer Reading Program concluded July 17 and was declared as a success by head librarian Jennifer Ensley and assistant librarian Rachel Zook, who supervised the activity.