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Gina Greenlee, Author

May 23, 20201 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 16, 20205 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 11, 20200 min read

Spoken Word: Overheard

How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Art Life Museum by Keri Smith

Gina Greenlee, Author

May 3, 20202 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...

“She had pierced the numbing anonymity of the street, if only for a moment.”

Gina Greenlee, Author

Apr 25, 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,...

“I was born a knot like my mother and her mother before her.”

Gina Greenlee, Author

Apr 19, 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...

A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life

Gina Greenlee, Author

Apr 12, 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...

On Artmaking and Mental Health: “Notes to Strangers” by Andy Leek

Gina Greenlee, Author

Apr 5, 20201 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

Mar 29, 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 22, 20201 min read

Got a Minute? Write Your Memoir

In these 10, one-minute videos you have everything you need to start – and keep writing – your memoir. Letterip!

If You’re Not “Full of Yourself” Who Should You Be Full of?

Gina Greenlee, Author

Mar 14, 20201 min read

If You’re Not “Full of Yourself” Who Should You Be Full of?

“She’s full of herself.” Meant as a slur about one who holds herself in high esteem. I say we should be full of ourselves, all of us....

Gina Greenlee, Author

Mar 8, 20202 min read

Create Some Work for the Asker

Helen asked if I would circle journey with her. Circle journeying is an interactive art journal traded back and forth until complete. I...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Mar 1, 20201 min read

Make a Splash in 2020!

◊ ◊ ◊ ◊ ◊ ◊ Life will only change when you become more committed to your dreams than you are to your comfort zone. Billy Cox ◊ ◊ ◊ ◊ ◊ ◊...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Feb 23, 20202 min read

Happy Birthday Leaplings!

After 58 revolutions around the sun I have a broader, more contemplative view of birthdays, not only those that fall on December 25. “How...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Feb 16, 20201 min read

Mix It Up in 2020!

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

Gina Greenlee, Author

Feb 10, 20202 min read

A Moroccan Epiphany

◊ ◊ ◊ If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. Thomas Edison ◊ ◊ ◊ On day 13 of a 14-day...

The Recovering Overfunctioner’s Commandments

Gina Greenlee, Author

Feb 2, 20203 min read

The Recovering Overfunctioner’s Commandments

Thou Shalt Not Script, Production Design, and then Rehearse Scenes from Imagined Slights and Conflicts. ◊ ◊ ◊ Thou Shalt Not Plan for...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jan 26, 20202 min read

Circumnavigating the Sun

I’ve just completed my Birthday Sabbatical. From October 31st to January 20th of the following year I celebrate my latest revolution...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jan 22, 20203 min read

How to Create Your Own Traditions

In 1958, celebrated fitness guru Jack Lalanne appeared on the televised game show, You Bet Your Life, hosted by comedian Groucho Marx:...

You’ve Been Longing to See the World. Let Nothing Stop You

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jan 12, 20201 min read

You’ve Been Longing to See the World. Let Nothing Stop You

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