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The Healing Journey: Game Changers, Integration and Daily Practice

Gina Greenlee, Author

Oct 11, 20205 min read

The Healing Journey: Game Changers, Integration and Daily Practice

Diane (a pseudonym) called to ask, “Are we okay?” A question I wasn’t expecting from 10 feet below the usual surface talk. I was at the...

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...

When life hands you lemons, why stop at lemonade? Create an entire product line.

Gina Greenlee, Author

Sep 27, 20204 min read

When life hands you lemons, why stop at lemonade? Create an entire product line.

“When I walk into an unknown situation, I don’t focus on what others think about me, I focus on what I think about them.” I was 17 years...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Sep 21, 20200 min read

This Is What Beautiful Looks Like

Gina Greenlee, Author

Sep 13, 20205 min read

14 More Septembers...and Counting

This scar across my neck has started so many conversations and friendships. If you have been where I have been, you know what it means....

It’s Not too Late or too Silly to Indulge Your Creativity

Gina Greenlee, Author

Sep 5, 20202 min read

It’s Not too Late or too Silly to Indulge Your Creativity

“No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too...

“You’re born naked and the rest is drag.”

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...

Steampunk Chicken: Opening the Mind with Surrealist Art

Gina Greenlee, Author

Aug 24, 20202 min read

Steampunk Chicken: Opening the Mind with Surrealist Art

Exquisite Corpse is a collaborative game that traces its roots to the 1920s Parisian Surrealist Movement. Usually played by several...

It Doesn’t Have to Be Perfect It Just Has to Be

Gina Greenlee, Author

Aug 16, 20202 min read

It Doesn’t Have to Be Perfect It Just Has to Be

One day in 2013, after a collage-making frenzy, I looked about my apartment at the tornado of art supplies and considered putting order...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Aug 10, 20201 min read

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 2, 20202 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....

Are Zooming, Sheltering-in and TV Binging Working Your Back and Hips? Try this.

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jul 26, 20201 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...

“The arts…are a very human way of making life more bearable…”

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jul 20, 20203 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...

How Visual Art Practice Advances Writing

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jul 12, 20202 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...

Still Going Strong: Meet Jan Mann, 83-Year-Old Adventurer

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jul 4, 20207 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

Jun 28, 20204 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...

“What’s coming is a million new reasons to go ahead.”

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

Jun 14, 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...

In art practice “Don’t be afraid to do the same thing repeatedly…”

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jun 6, 20202 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...

It’s June 2020. Are You on Track for the Goals You’ve Set?

Gina Greenlee, Author

May 30, 20203 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...