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Gina Greenlee, Author

Aug 17, 2021
1 min

Autodraw

https://www.autodraw.com/ Just go with it.

May 26, 2020: When the Woman on the Left Called the Woman on the Right

Gina Greenlee, Author

Aug 9, 2021
3 min

May 26, 2020: When the Woman on the Left Called the Woman on the Right

The two women in the headline photo embarked on a journey on May 26, 2020, the day after George Floyd was murdered. The woman on the left...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jul 30, 2021
1 min

Mailbox Poetry Vol. 2

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Gina Greenlee, Author

Jul 25, 2021
1 min

Be Notorious

“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent...

Be the Frog. With Thanks to Nicolas Chamfort

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jul 17, 2021
2 min

Be the Frog. With Thanks to Nicolas Chamfort

So, turns out that American man of letters Mark Twain did not famously say, “if the first thing you do in the morning is eat a live frog,...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jul 11, 2021
1 min

Power Recipe #4: Get Unreasonable

“Get unreasonable and everything’s possible; if you get reasonable you are going to have to lower your standards and drop down to what...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jul 3, 2021
2 min

An Unpredictable Weekend

I had planned to be much on the move – going here, going there, doing this, doing that. Then I hit a pothole and my bike (Suzuki 650)...

In the ballroom at the Airport Sheraton Hotel…

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jun 27, 2021
1 min

In the ballroom at the Airport Sheraton Hotel…

“In the ballroom at the Airport Sheraton Hotel, a team of men and women sit inside separate booths, curtained off from each other. They...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jun 20, 2021
0 min

Oh, Why Not?

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jun 13, 2021
0 min

Mailbox Poetry Volume 1

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jun 6, 2021
1 min

When the Door Opens

The moment you accept what troubles you’ve been given, the door will open. Rumi

“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...