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Georgia Connector Fall 2022

10/16/2022

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Georgia Connector Summer 2022

6/15/2022

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​Leaving my hometown one summer afternoon, I swerved into the drive-through at Dairy Queen to
get a vanilla cone for my trip back to Athens. As I waited for the treat so reminiscent of my
childhood, I noticed a car parked askew across the parking lot. The elderly driver had gotten out
and was wrestling to extract a wheel chair from the back seat. I was about to run over and help
when, lo and behold...

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Georgia Connector Spring 2022

3/18/2022

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Sticks ‘n stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.

We can chant that little ditty ‘til the cows come home, but ‘tain’t so. Ask anyone who has ever been bullied. Per Dr. Phil McGraw: it takes 1,000 ‘atta boys’ to erase one ‘you’re an idiot.’

Now that I am older, and hopefully wiser, I pay more attention to the words I use. When I forget, a grandson at the age of inquisition, keeps me on my toes. He wants to know why I say “indeed.” I don’t know, but I’m suddenly aware that I do, indeed, say it often...

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Georgia Connector Winter 2021

1/19/2022

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One cold, rainy trip into town, I had to stop in a tight curve behind a county work truck blocking my lane. A man hopped out, grabbed a shovel from the truck bed, scooped a flattened 'possum from the road, and sent me on my merry way.
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Since I couldn't thank him, I thanked God, along with my tax dollars. It's nice knowing, in freezing winter drizzle...

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Georgia Connector Fall 2021

10/6/2021

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​Yellow is the happy color of sunshine and daffodils. ​But the experience of choosing the right shade of yellow for clothes and paint is anything but happy. I've found myself looking like a canary more than once. My beloved writing mentor, Harriette Austin, often wore a bright yellow blazer with black piping that made her as easy to spot as a highlighted sentence in a manuscript.

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Georgia Connector Summer 2021

6/18/2021

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A fixture of Georgia landscapes for my entire life, kudzu softens the shapes of outbuildings and transforms trees into odd topiaries. Its vines climb utility poles on both sides of our highways, stretching out DaVinci-like fingers trying to touch above the road traffic. On the fence behind Auntie's clothesline, a tendril of kudzu grew five inches from the morning when I'd hang out wet washing 'til the afternoon when it was dry. Some call kudzu the "Santa Claus vine," saying it will come down your chimney.
My nephew asked his mom to buy a packet of Jack-and-the-Beanstalk seeds for her garden, which she discovered in the nick of time was kudzu.


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Georgia Connector Spring 2021

3/23/2021

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Long before the term "hack" meant unauthorized access to computer data, Mama hacked (chopped) chickens to fry, and she could hack off (insult) her sister with one side-eyed glance. She was also proficient in the type of hacking now defined as "an inelegant solution to a particular problem."
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The Eatonton Messenger

1/21/2021

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Genie Smith Bernstein is named Georgia Independent Author of the Year for her story collection Skating on the Septic Tank – Telling Stories published by Black Opal Books. Known for stories of growing up in Putnam County, Bernstein credits a decade of writing for Georgia Connector Magazine with her wide readership and thanks Southern Pen Bookshop for this award.
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Athens Banner-Herald

1/19/2021

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When award-winning Athens author Genie Smith Bernstein compares her first writing experience to landing an airplane, she’s not making an analogy.

“When I was 27, my first husband took up flying lessons, and I decided I needed to know how to land, just in case,” said Bernstein.

“I ended up having an engine failure...
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Georgia Connector 10 Years Strong

12/6/2020

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10 Years Strong

Its title resonated with me from the instant I heard it.
Back when I was a child, before central air conditioning was the norm, families sat out on porches after supper - to cool off, to rest a spell, to talk over what was done and what still needed doing.
 Reminiscing invariably took over.
That first story connected to another, then another, and another. This led me, as a youngster, to form a worldview of life as a chain made of connected links...
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