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Gina Greenlee, Author
Apr 28, 20241 min read
Don’t Regret the Spill…
Use the paint. In the United States we are often obsessed with perfectionism. And catastrophize our failures. Luckily, failure does not...
Gina Greenlee, Author
Oct 29, 20231 min read
You’re My Chocolate: The Savages
A fave YouTube comment: “Played this at a private costume party in September 2011. All the people were high out of their minds, including...
Gina Greenlee, Author
Sep 17, 20232 min read
Gloria Steinem Reader
Quotes from Revolution from Within: A Book of Self Esteem by Gloria Steinem True Self The point of the journey is not just the healing....
Gina Greenlee, Author
Aug 13, 20231 min read
Acts of Faith
Be Ruthless Why Stop at Lemonade? Life on the Edge London Life Expansion Pact Stand Up for Yourself by not Standing Yourself Up...
Gina Greenlee, Author
Jul 23, 20231 min read
Love in All Forms
Lost Café para Llevar Agape Playdate Tragic Happy Valentine’s Day Spiritual Slomo Transcendent Forever Cross-cultural Two Strangers Who...
Gina Greenlee, Author
Jul 16, 20231 min read
Tales from the Dark Side
The Neighbor’s Window To Serve Her Man The Six Month’s Game Recipe for a César Vallejo Poem The Voices Inside Your Head Gremlins: Not...
Gina Greenlee, Author
Feb 5, 20232 min read
The Leonard Cohen Reader
Until I saw it, I didn’t know I needed to witness Leonard Cohen skipping off stage at the end of a London performance to the beat of...
Gina Greenlee, Author
Sep 7, 20221 min read
Crushed by Negative News? Sign up for the Reasons to be Cheerful Newsletter
Discovering Reasonstobecheerful was a lifesaver. I discovered it on Oct 7, 2021, when I was feeling deeply hopeless about humanity....
Gina Greenlee, Author
Jul 4, 20223 min read
What’s a 45?
When I was in my 40s, I mentioned to a woman half my age at the time that I had asked a friend to make music CDs from my 45s. And she...
Gina Greenlee, Author
Apr 29, 20222 min read
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...
Gina Greenlee, Author
Jul 3, 20212 min read
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)...
Gina Greenlee, Author
May 16, 20211 min read
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, 20211 min read
The Art of (Collage) Stripping
Junk mail collage art: Gina Greenlee Creating junk mail art is a great visual art practice if you don’t already have one. It’s the...
Gina Greenlee, Author
Apr 10, 20210 min read
Gina Greenlee, Author
Mar 8, 20214 min read
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...
Gina Greenlee, Author
Feb 22, 20211 min read
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
Oct 4, 20201 min read
Life Simplified
“Overwhelmed by life’s complexity?” “Realize that our [English] alphabet consists of only 26 letters, calculations are based on a set of...
Gina Greenlee, Author
Aug 29, 20201 min read
“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
Jun 22, 20201 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
May 11, 20200 min read
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