Gina Greenlee, Author
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Gina Greenlee, Author
- Sep 13, 2020
- 5 min
14 More Septembers...and Counting
This scar across my neck has started so many conversations and friendships. If you have been where I have been, you know what it means....
Gina Greenlee, Author
- Sep 5, 2020
- 2 min
It’s Not too Late or too Silly to Indulge Your Creativity
“No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too...
Gina Greenlee, Author
- Aug 29, 2020
- 1 min
“You’re born naked and the rest is drag.”
“If you think this book is just about ‘doing drag,’” says the Amazon blurb for GuRu by RuPaul, “you are sorely mistaken. For RuPaul, drag...
Gina Greenlee, Author
- Aug 24, 2020
- 2 min
Steampunk Chicken: Opening the Mind with Surrealist Art
Exquisite Corpse is a collaborative game that traces its roots to the 1920s Parisian Surrealist Movement. Usually played by several...
Gina Greenlee, Author
- Aug 16, 2020
- 2 min
It Doesn’t Have to Be Perfect It Just Has to Be
One day in 2013, after a collage-making frenzy, I looked about my apartment at the tornado of art supplies and considered putting order...
Gina Greenlee, Author
- Aug 10, 2020
- 1 min
Let Me Read to You
In 2008, I independently produced the audio version of my third book, Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road,...
Gina Greenlee, Author
- Aug 2, 2020
- 2 min
Do It Like Dada
Gina’s 2017 Writing Journal: From the walking trail in route to the parking lot, I heard children’s yelps in the playground to my left....
Gina Greenlee, Author
- Jul 26, 2020
- 1 min
Are Zooming, Sheltering-in and TV Binging Working Your Back and Hips? Try this.
Downward Dog Yoga Pose Releases tension in low-back, hamstrings, calves and Achilles tendon. If you’ve not tried this, it’s far more...
Gina Greenlee, Author
- Jul 20, 2020
- 2 min
“The arts…are a very human way of making life more bearable…”
“Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.” –Kurt Vonnegut, Jr In the...
Gina Greenlee, Author
- Jul 12, 2020
- 2 min
How Visual Art Practice Advances Writing
A year-long journey in Expressive Arts Training in 2011 helped me to understand how my writing benefitted from varied art modalities such...
Gina Greenlee, Author
- Jul 4, 2020
- 7 min
Still Going Strong: Meet Jan Mann, 83-Year-Old Adventurer
Gina: At age 80 you realized that your Pension Fund was on its last drop and soon you’d be living off Social Security alone. Most people...
Gina Greenlee, Author
- Jun 28, 2020
- 4 min
“My father is not a racist.”
How could I account for my father’s worldview, that of a generation of black man born and grown into manhood in America’s Apartheid South...
Gina Greenlee, Author
- Jun 22, 2020
- 1 min
“What’s coming is a million new reasons to go ahead.”
“What’s coming is a million new reasons not to live your life. You can deny your possibility to succeed and blame it on something else....
Gina Greenlee, Author
- Jun 14, 2020
- 1 min
New York State of Mind
Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood Hop a flight to Miami Beach or to Hollywood But I’m takin’ a Greyhound...
Gina Greenlee, Author
- Jun 6, 2020
- 2 min
In art practice “Don’t be afraid to do the same thing repeatedly…”
“One artwork is the inspiration for another.” Shaun McNiff Digital and handmade collages by Gina Greenlee. Female portrait line drawing...
Gina Greenlee, Author
- May 30, 2020
- 3 min
It’s June 2020. Are You on Track for the Goals You’ve Set?
October is the time to set goals for 2021. Not December. Certainly not January 2021. And NOW is the time to assess goals we set for this...
Gina Greenlee, Author
- May 23, 2020
- 1 min
Mailbox Poetry: Junk Mail Isn’t Junk
◊ ◊ ◊ “Took my diamond to the pawn shop, but that don’t make it junk.” – Leonard Cohen
Gina Greenlee, Author
- May 16, 2020
- 5 min
The Introvert’s Guide to Social Media
“I enjoyed myself more than ever because I was catering to a natural strength of one-on-one engagement.” In 2007, I helmed website...
Gina Greenlee, Author
- May 11, 2020
- 0 min
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