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This is the August 17, 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. No longer reliable servants to her brain, Norma's hands have taken on lives of their
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By the time James Spruill says the sentence for the third or fourth time, it lands like something he’s been carrying for decades. “I am more with her than I could ever be without her.” It isn’t a rehearsed line. It’s simply how he understands his life – with Mary beside him.
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Cheatham County Animal Control honored the core group of South Cheatham’s Winter Storm Fern volunteers by naming its latest puppy litter after seven community members who were organizing, cooking and chainsawing for their neighbors in need.
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How to Survive the Process (and Still Like Each Other After)
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In our 61 years together, I can't recall ever giving my wife Norma a Valentine nor celebrating the occasion with her. To me, it was utter silliness that a day and a symbol I had nothing to do with creating could render me more romantic than I could be on my own.
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“Mahoney Knows Homes” is the Gazette’s expert real estate column. Author Jack Mahoney is a realtor in Kingston Springs who is driven by a mission to deliver top-tier service, trusted market insight and meaningful value to the community he calls home.
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If arctic blasts, short days of half-hearted sunshine and the hideous cost of good brandy are getting you down, then head immediately to the Kingston Springs Library and book your psyche for an escape flight to cheerier places and times.
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This is the August 14, 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.
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Former Kingston Springs Mayor Tony Gross launched a new community wellness initiative, Keep Fit Kingston Springs, on Jan. 1, marking its debut with the ninth annual First Day 5K run.
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The Cheatham County Animal Shelter closed out 2025 with one of its most successful years yet for its cat program, placing 813 cats into homes or partner rescues and entering the new year with just two adoptable cats remaining in its free-roaming cat room.
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We know libraries are magical places. But unless your imagination is far more mushroomy than mine, you've never conjured up a situation like the one depicted by Hiki Harada in her “Dinner at the Night Library.”
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This is the June 17, 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.