Clarksville Living Magazine — January 2020
The January 2020 issue of Clarksville Living Magazine resolves to bring joy in the new year, revisits the once-divisive Downtown Commons, and laughs at the confusion of modern life.
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The cover feature, “Bring Joy in 2020,” sets an intentional tone for the year, trading the usual resolution guilt for a simpler aim: more joy, cultivated on purpose. It is the kind of warm, forward-looking opener the magazine likes to lead its January issues with.
“Downtown Commons” takes stock of a civic success story. The heated debates that surrounded the project's beginnings are now just faded memory, the feature notes, as the gathering space has become a beloved fixture of downtown Clarksville — proof that ambitious public projects can outrun their early controversy.
“Confusion. Confusion Everywhere” brings a lighter, knowing humor, riffing on the viral Buzz Lightyear meme — Woody being shown something that is suddenly everywhere — to make a wry point about the overload of modern life. It is the magazine at its most playful.
The recurring departments fill out the issue: a Pet Corner on New Year's resolutions for your pet, Petpix, the Fridge, the community calendar and the Network pages that connect local readers and businesses.
Together the features open 2020 on an upbeat, human note — a resolution worth keeping, a civic win worth celebrating, and a laugh at the shared absurdities of the moment — with no hint yet of the year that lay ahead.
It is a characteristically wide-ranging January number, balancing genuine reflection with humor and the everyday rhythms of Clarksville life, and inviting readers into a new year with optimism.
Read in hindsight, the issue is a quiet time capsule of the last ordinary January before the pandemic — a community making resolutions, celebrating a downtown gathering place, and laughing at everyday absurdities, with the year's great disruption still weeks away. It makes the joy the cover promised feel, in retrospect, both innocent and worth holding onto.
Table of Contents
- Bring Joy in 2020 (p. 6)
- Downtown Commons (p. 8)
- New Year, Better You (p. 12)
- Confusion. Confusion Everywhere (p. 16)
- The Holiday Fun Continues (p. 18)
- Pet Corner: New Year Resolutions for Your Pet (p. 22)
Regular departments
- Petpix (p. 24)
- Fridge (p. 26)
- Calendar (p. 28)
- Network (p. 36)