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“Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It’s what everything else isn’t.”

Gina Greenlee, Author

May 30, 2021
1 min

“Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It’s what everything else isn’t.”

― THEODORE ROETHKE It’s Not too Late or too Silly to Indulge Your Creativity Steampunk Chicken: Opening the Mind with Surrealist Art “The...

Gina Greenlee, Author

May 23, 2021
3 min

Lynda Barry Daily Image Journal

This blog post is an excerpt from my book, The Writer’s Toy Chest. In her book What It Is Lynda calls the Daily Image Journal “noticing...

Must You Write? Dig Deep Into Yourself for the Answer.

Gina Greenlee, Author

May 16, 2021
1 min

Must You Write? Dig Deep Into Yourself for the Answer.

German-language poet Rainer Maria Rilke tells us: “This most of all: ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write?...

Gina Greenlee, Author

May 10, 2021
1 min

The Art of (Collage) Stripping

Creating junk mail art is a great visual art practice if you don’t already have one. It’s the perfect art material. We were going to...

Gina Greenlee, Author

May 3, 2021
4 min

PLAY!

No Alarms, Doodling and You at Age 3 Ever notice how kids play? When they make up stories they roll from one idea to the next. Mikey...

Power Recipe #3: “Get the Money Up Front…”

Gina Greenlee, Author

Apr 25, 2021
1 min

Power Recipe #3: “Get the Money Up Front…”

“Get the money up front. If they ain’t payin’ your rent, pay them no mind. Play with all the colors in the crayon box. Don’t take life...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Apr 18, 2021
1 min

Fun with Free Magazines

Very old ones donated to the library. I read ‘em then play with the images.

Gina Greenlee, Author

Apr 10, 2021
0 min

Mailbox Oracle

Overfunctioning Recovery: Lessons from Playing Diner Dash

Gina Greenlee, Author

Apr 3, 2021
3 min

Overfunctioning Recovery: Lessons from Playing Diner Dash

Seven years ago I discovered the video game Diner Dash. One night I played four hours. I was enjoying myself, racking up points and...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Mar 28, 2021
1 min

Whoa, steady girl…

This plot twist has me woozy… Go ’head. Get Your Read On. AVAILABLE NOW ON AMAZON

Gina Greenlee, Author

Mar 21, 2021
4 min

A Dating Story: Sunk Cost Bias

Early in my 15 years of living in Connecticut I knew no one, and sought companionship and boredom-free living through personal ad dating....

Gina Greenlee, Author

Mar 14, 2021
1 min

I told him, “Look…

… you stayed out with your boys last night. Tonight? I’m about my book.” ◊ ◊ ◊ Go ’head. Get Your Read On. Available now on Amazon

Gina Greenlee, Author

Mar 8, 2021
4 min

Did Your Family Throw Plates?

The headline comes from journalist Warren Berger’s The Book of Beautiful Questions. The question is intended to find out about conflict...

Power Recipe #2: Platanos Maduros con Zhoug

Gina Greenlee, Author

Feb 28, 2021
1 min

Power Recipe #2: Platanos Maduros con Zhoug

Ingredients: 1 pound bag of these (frozen): A tub of this: “Zhoug (pronounced ZhOOg) is a cilantro-based sauce/condiment I introduced in...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Feb 22, 2021
1 min

Art is what happens…

For nearly 40 years I tried to be something I wasn’t. I had the houses, the vacations, the cute boyfriends, the high-paying corporate...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Feb 14, 2021
10 min

Reimagining a False Life

In April 2000 when I embarked on my solo trip around the world, I didn’t arrange to return to my corporate job at the trip’s conclusion...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Feb 7, 2021
1 min

Channeling 1960s London Style

Vest: $2.99 Cut velvet tunic: $4.99 Striped stretch bell bottoms $4.99 Faux suede slip-ons $7.99 And, supports a good cause.

Gina Greenlee, Author

Feb 1, 2021
3 min

Hope is Not a Strategy. Climb.

I’ve read Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by journalist Piers Paul Read four times. 1974 (first read) The year it was published I...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jan 23, 2021
1 min

Everything I’m wearing? Sal’s Army.

From neck to toe. That’s $25, ya’ll. Yes, the shoes and belt, too. When my father died in 2004, the Salvation Army was a tremendous...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jan 19, 2021
2 min

Can You See Me Now?

I’ve been riding motorbikes since age 14. Now that I live in Florida I ride full time. People are always asking me, “You only have the...