Clarksville Living Magazine — February 2021

The February 2021 issue of Clarksville Living Magazine keeps heart health in focus amid the pandemic, reimagines date night at home, and helps parents survive remote learning.

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“Take It To Heart” makes a timely argument: it's easy to let COVID-19 overshadow other important health issues when the virus dominates the news, social media and every conversation, but heart health cannot wait. The feature refocuses readers on the screenings and habits that matter most for the leading cause of death, pandemic or not.

With Valentine's Day approaching and a romantic night out still complicated, “Date Night: Inside Edition” reimagines the evening at home — from virtual mixology classes to other creative at-home experiences that keep the spark going without a reservation.

“Partners in Wine” profiles Jake and Emily Trageser, whom the military brought back to Clarksville in 2013 after a two-year posting away, and the business they built together — a story of a service family putting down roots and pouring them into a local venture.

The issue speaks directly to exhausted families with a “Parent Survival Guide for Remote Learning.” For many in the Clarksville area, January 2021 seemed to go on forever thanks to virtual and remote schooling for all CMCSS students, and the guide offers practical strategies for parents stretched between work and their children's screens.

Across its features the issue meets a hard winter head-on — guarding health, salvaging romance, and surviving the school day — while a business profile reminds readers that new roots are still taking hold even in a difficult year.

Taken together, the issue is a portrait of a community adapting: cardiologists urging people not to let COVID crowd out their heart health, couples finding romance without a reservation, a military family building a business at home, and parents inventing new routines for a school year lived on screens. It is practical, empathetic winter reading for a month when everyone needed a little of both.

Table of Contents

• Take It To Heart (p. 6)
• Date Night: Inside Edition (p. 8)
• Local Legend, Charlie Cushman (p. 14)
• Parent Survival Guide For Remote Learning (p. 18)
• Partners In Wine (p. 20)
• The Nice Guy S (p. 22)
• Pet Corner (p. 24)

Regular departments

• Pet Pix (p. 25)
• Calendar Of Events (p. 26)
• Network (p. 34)