Georgia On My Mind

Bonus Essay: July 2022

As I landed in the Republic of Georgia last week, my husband sent me a text, “Welcome to Atlanta.” I smiled. I had just arrived in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, around 6,000 miles east of Atlanta, Georgia. And there were no peach trees outside the air terminal, only golden fields of dry hay and tall mountains covered with green fir trees. Atlanta and…