Life Insights

Truth Be Told Vol. 5: “I Was Just Young Enough to Believe Her”

Gina Greenlee, Author

May 23, 2022
1 min

Truth Be Told Vol. 5: “I Was Just Young Enough to Believe Her”

“I was traveling with my mother to North Carolina. Usually, we traveled by car but this time we took the train [from New York City]. And...

Short Film Festival #5: Happiness by Steve Cutts

Gina Greenlee, Author

May 15, 2022
1 min

Short Film Festival #5: Happiness by Steve Cutts

Prepare to have your mind blown.

Gina Greenlee, Author

May 7, 2022
1 min

Learn to Make Yourself Happy

I decided to come back to Los Angeles and learn to live alone. I said, I will learn about me… You have three or four choices here that...

Random Thoughts: A Manhattan Native’s 15 Years Living in New England

Gina Greenlee, Author

Apr 29, 2022
2 min

Random Thoughts: A Manhattan Native’s 15 Years Living in New England

Let’s talk town fair. Three giant beans on a placemat win a blue ribbon. A kid with a cow on a frayed rope. Walking it like a dog. Fried...

Truth Be Told Vol 2: Creativity and Misplaced Power

Gina Greenlee, Author

Apr 24, 2022
1 min

Truth Be Told Vol 2: Creativity and Misplaced Power

“When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Apr 17, 2022
1 min

Diggin’ on James Brown

Ya know the more things change The more they stay the same It may be a different age But I'm on the same page Cause one thing that I've...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Apr 10, 2022
1 min

Superman

In my dream I was invited to speak about Superman. I was billed as the premier authority – to be clear about my professional status in my...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Apr 2, 2022
1 min

Truth Be Told Vol. 4: Time Will Tell

“Time will tell… whether folks want to point and stare at the Black woman filmmaker who made a certain kind of film, and pat her on the...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Mar 19, 2022
1 min

I’ll Be Back for You

I am standing on the platform of the A train in Manhattan. My mother is with me. It’s winter. I am 8 years old, and I’m wearing the navy...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Mar 13, 2022
1 min

Film Festival #4: AlphaGo

With more board configurations than there are atoms in the universe, the ancient Chinese game of Go has long been considered a grand...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Mar 7, 2022
3 min

Recipe for a César Vallejo Poem

In 2007 I took a poetry writing course at the Omega Institute for Holistic Health in Rhinebeck, New York. My key takeaway from that...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Feb 27, 2022
2 min

If You Do it for Them, Do it for You

Still in my 20s, my first job right out of graduate school was at a well-respected Fortune 50 corporation. I worked hard my five years...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Feb 21, 2022
1 min

What He Already Knows

Gina is 18 years old, 5 foot 3 with cornrows. Seated on the couch next to her father, she’s trying to choose the right time to reveal...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Feb 12, 2022
5 min

Hell No, Love God

I sashayed into a midtown office seeking employment in 1983 at age 22. “How fast can you type?” came the question from the Manhattan...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Feb 5, 2022
2 min

Divide by Four

“Divide by Four?” Detective Morales looked up from his notes. “Yeah, that’s our inside joke about Mary Lou and her stories,” Reva said....

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jan 30, 2022
1 min

Ask Me Again

How I Overfunctioned: I repeatedly invited Betty to various social activities. She would repeatedly decline my invitation then say, “Ask...

Short Film Festival #3: Forever by Joyce Sherri

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jan 15, 2022
1 min

Short Film Festival #3: Forever by Joyce Sherri

An interracial couple’s love is tested when they fall victim to a hate crime. Watch on YouTube ◊ ◊ ◊ About filmmaker Joyce Sherri

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jan 10, 2022
2 min

100 Years from Now No One Will Care

During my Internet travels I came across a 2017 blog post by Sweden-based photographer Micael Widell. The title: Who will remember you in...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Dec 26, 2021
2 min

LEAP

There is a time when we must firmly choose the course which we will follow or the endless drift of events will make the decision for us. ...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Dec 12, 2021
2 min

Just the Two of Us

Every December Daddy took the box down from the top closet shelf. I sat on our blue carpeted living room floor to separate the artificial...