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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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Georgia Connector Winter 2020

12/6/2020

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This past year, I have spent lots of time in my happy place, the place to where my mind retreats during times of stress. I hope you have such a place. Mine is simple, unadorned room, embraced by the warmth and love of simple folk ready to love me simply because their son did.
In the winter of 1964, I had never been more nervous than...

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Simply Love
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Georgia Connector Fall 2020

10/1/2020

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This morning in heaven my Mama smiled. She also covered her ears at the racket going on inside my car.

She had broken it to me early in life that I was the only one of her four children who “couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket.” Oh, how I envied my songbird sisters and baritone brother. While they harmonized with Mama, I dared not hum above a whisper lest sibling ridicule rain down on my tone-deaf ears. Mama compensated me with dance lessons, tap and ballet, but I yearned to play the piano like Baby Sister and sing pop tunes with Brother.

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A Joyful Noise
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Awarded

9/28/2020

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2020 Georgia Independent Author of the Year Short Story Collection - Winner 

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Georgia Connector Summer 2020

8/11/2020

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You got your first driver's license without ever having been behind the wheel of a car. At fourteen, following Sister's footsteps from six years earlier, I worked Saturdays at the dime store, roughly the equivalent of this generation's Dollar Store. But way cooler. As Sister had done, I finagled rides to traverse the six miles from home to town and spent untold hours waiting for return treks at our favorite uncle's downtown grocery store.

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You Grew Up in Small-Town Georgia if...
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Georgia Connector Spring 2020

3/25/2020

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Azaleas herald spring as they adorn the southern landscape and flame around foundations of homes. Their beauty abounds at that other herald of spring, The Masters Tournament in Augusta. Not that I play golf, but I spent a couple of decades on courses with a husband who was so avid about the game I call him Golfer. Fairways, manicured to the nth degree, smell of newly mown grass, an aroma of my childhood. Since I wasn’t chasing a little white ball or fretting over the mounting number of strokes, I often meditated beside peaceful duck ponds, also known as water hazards. A Sebring, Florida, alligator moseying from pond to pond, led me to discover how fast a golf cart really can go.

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The Golf Widow
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Georgia Connector Winter 2019

2/7/2020

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My introduction to Doc came when I was ten. His red, yellow, and blue feathers flashed beneath neon green wings as one gnarly claw accepted a black walnut from my tentative fingers. With his dark tongue and powerful beak, he pulverized the nut that I couldn't crack with a hammer. Lesson learned. I never put my fingers into his cage. An Amazon parrot as big as a house cat, with vocabulary bigger than mine, Doc came home from Guatemala with Unk, husband of Mama's sister, Susie. They and their two children lived with Nanny, my grandmother, and became our new neighbors. Unk's pet parrot assimilated into our family. Sort of.
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Doc's Demise
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Georgia Connector Fall 2019

2/7/2020

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What happens to you when you read this passage from Girl in a Foxhole by Donna McGinty?
I waited for Peter and Beth at the curb, straddling my 1940 Champion bike, trying to remember when I'd added the metal bell and front wire basket and side mirrors and streamers off the handlebars. It had come with a headlight and a back-wheel rack. Gone were the stupid saddlebags I got my first Christmas in Texas back when Champion was my turquoise horse. I blushed to remember how I'd raced up and down the street, snorting and rearing up on the back wheel, shouting "whoa" and skidding to a halt.
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Georgia Connector Summer 2019

8/1/2019

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Watermelon cutting around Auntie's backyard reunion table was a neighborhood event in my day. Surrounded by yard swings for adults, and plenty of nearby stoops, steps, and stumps for kids, Uncle Bull plunged a butcher knife into the sweaty green rind. SCHUNK!
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Salting Watermelon
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