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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 9, 20201 min read


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
Aug 1, 20202 min read


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 26, 20201 min read


“The arts…are a very human way of making life more bearable…”
Pen and ink drawing by Gina Greenlee, inspired by one created by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. “Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a...

Gina Greenlee, Author
Jul 19, 20203 min read


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 12, 20202 min read


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
Jul 4, 20207 min read


“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 28, 20204 min read


“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 22, 20201 min read


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 14, 20201 min read


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
Jun 6, 20202 min read


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 30, 20203 min read


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 23, 20201 min read


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 16, 20205 min read



Gina Greenlee, Author
May 11, 20200 min read


How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Art Life Museum by Keri Smith
“[The residual purpose of art is] purposeless play. This play, however, is an affirmaton of life – not an attempt to bring order out of...

Gina Greenlee, Author
May 2, 20202 min read


“She had pierced the numbing anonymity of the street, if only for a moment.”
From the young adult novel, Saturday, the Twelfth of October by Norma Fox Mazer: “On an afternoon in October, walking home from school,...

Gina Greenlee, Author
Apr 25, 20202 min read


“I was born a knot like my mother and her mother before her.”
From The Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter “I was born a knot like my mother and her mother before her. Picture three women with their torsos...

Gina Greenlee, Author
Apr 19, 20202 min read


A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life
“I am called a movie producer…but really what I am is a storyteller,” writes Brian Grazer in his book A Curious Mind: The Secret to a...

Gina Greenlee, Author
Apr 12, 20202 min read


On Artmaking and Mental Health: “Notes to Strangers” by Andy Leek
Meet the artist leaving positive notes for strangers around London. Too many talents remain hidden behind fear of ridicule. Andy Leek,...

Gina Greenlee, Author
Apr 5, 20201 min read


As You Consider Your Next Move…
…practice this definition of trust: the willingness to take steps while simultaneously waiting for “instructions.” ◊ ◊ ◊ Postcards and...

Gina Greenlee, Author
Mar 28, 20201 min read
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