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    Short Film Festival #5: Happiness by Steve Cutts
    Gina Greenlee, Author
    • 3 days ago
    • 1 min

    Short Film Festival #5: Happiness by Steve Cutts

    Prepare to have your mind blown.
    Learn to Make Yourself Happy
    Gina Greenlee, Author
    • May 7
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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...
    Diggin’ on James Brown
    Gina Greenlee, Author
    • Apr 17
    • 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...
    Superman
    Gina Greenlee, Author
    • Apr 10
    • 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...
    Truth Be Told Vol. 4: Time Will Tell
    Gina Greenlee, Author
    • Apr 2
    • 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...
    Truth Be Told Vol 3: Your Anxiety is Not My Problem
    Gina Greenlee, Author
    • Mar 27
    • 1 min

    Truth Be Told Vol 3: Your Anxiety is Not My Problem

    Not overfunctioning means not being a vessel for other people’s anxiety. That was my job in my family-of-origin. To absorb the psychic...
    I’ll Be Back for You
    Gina Greenlee, Author
    • Mar 19
    • 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...
    Film Festival #4: AlphaGo
    Gina Greenlee, Author
    • Mar 13
    • 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...
    Recipe for a César Vallejo Poem
    Gina Greenlee, Author
    • Mar 7
    • 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...
    If You Do it for Them, Do it for You
    Gina Greenlee, Author
    • Feb 27
    • 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...
    What He Already Knows
    Gina Greenlee, Author
    • Feb 21
    • 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...
    Hell No, Love God
    Gina Greenlee, Author
    • Feb 12
    • 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...
    Divide by Four
    Gina Greenlee, Author
    • Feb 5
    • 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....
    Ask Me Again
    Gina Greenlee, Author
    • Jan 30
    • 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
    • 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
    100 Years from Now No One Will Care
    Gina Greenlee, Author
    • Jan 10
    • 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...
    LEAP
    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. ...
    Just the Two of 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...
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