Edward Morris

Life

And Then There's This... Norma: Collateral Damage

This is the May 25, 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. Norma has fallen. Hard. And I let it happen. I had just helped her into clean pajamas,

Opinion

Jake Owen: Middle Age Savvy

Hometown country star Jake Owen's new album – "Dreams to Dream" – should be listened to with the lights dimmed, the phone silenced and a glass of wine within sipping distance. The lyrics roll out like pages of a good book and ponder such weighty subjects as lost

Life

And Then There's This... Norma: 'How Long Will It Be Dark?'

This is the April 24, 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 haven't written lately about caring for Norma because I've been too exhausted.

Life

And Then There's This... Norma: Flashes and Fixations

This is the March 21, 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. This time I'm scared. Instead of being awakened in the middle of the night by

Life

Joint projects and jingle bells: New books at town library

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.

Life

And Then There's This... Norma: Solitary Confinement

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

Life

And Then There's This... Norma: Dry Humor

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'

News

New library books for the chilly season

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

Life

And Then There's This... Norma: Heart Attacks

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

Life

And Then There's This... Norma: Taking Her Home

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

Life

And Then There's This... Norma: Let the Rest of the World Go By

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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Library announces new fiction additions

It’s gonna take a bigger beach to accommodate all the new beach reading material rolling into the Kingston Springs Library this month.