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Sitting at the Opening Party for Los Feliz Writers Festival!
By Sammy Ginsberg This is crazyzyyzyzyzyyY!!! 74 people are heerreee!! We moved into Pattaya Bay and it all worked and is lovely magical so many writer people. Learning that we are here every weekkK!! That guy that I keep running into all over LA that has very hipster glasses is here flirting with two girls…
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It’s been a while
By Sammy Ginsberg I’m feeling the need to blog!! I haven’t in soo long. Not since I wrapped up my Stability Sammy Project. I feel like I need another project. A reason to check in every week or every day to see how things are going. I have been feeling quite stable, which is delightful.…
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Concluding Stability Sammy (June 2025- June 2026)
By Sammy Ginsberg In June of 2025, I started Stability Sammy, a project to document and support me becoming stable in all forms: housing; lifestyle & health; purpose & contribution; relationships; systemic societal supports; money. It has been a fucking journey, and clearly, I am still not super stable as I there is a high…
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Anti-Ode to the Third Toilet From the End in the Elephant Bar Bathroom
By Victoria Lynne McCoy We were there for my birthday dinner, but youwere the main event. I prepared to kneel before youlike ritual, there in the vaguely safari-themedsuburban chain. The anonymity of Anytown I neededwith the false promise of adventureI craved. You were a confession I bore in secretso no one could take the cold…
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Public Hiding Spot
By Naomi Williams This piece is from The Feminist Toilet #3. To return to the table of contents, click here.
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Update #59: Cycles
By Sammy Ginsberg I’m trapped in a cycle of doing too much and people not understanding what I am doing and how to help. I am overwhelmed and disorganized. I am trying to do too much, I am feeling guilty and no one cares. I am not taking care of myself and prioritizing what I…
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Update #58: Teeehheeeheheee
By Sammy Ginsberg Oh my! Since I stopped teaching last week on Wednesday, I have become so scattered in a daze summer mode craze. Also I’ve been dating this guy and when we’re together, everything falls away and the ordinary is so very blissful. I’ve been so scatterbrained in a beautiful way, but also in…
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Update #57: I have decided to leave full-time public school teaching
By Sammy Ginsberg It’s been a long time coming. I resigned from full-time teaching because I burnt out. I went on medical leave twice that year from burn out, and I just needed it to be over. I didn’t really have a plan of what to do next, I just knew that what I was…
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Update #56: Boundaries!
By Sammy Ginsberg Wednesday, April 1 I am reading about boundaries. I have realized that the reason I am back in this situation is because my boundaries are too weak and I keep getting harmed. This is the situation in my classroom, as well as with work boundaries and even with friends and family. I…
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Update #55: Do I move to Oklahoma?
By Sammy Ginsberg Watching Murder She Wrote on Amazon Prime last night, an advertisement came on about moving to Oklahoma. While none of the other ads spoke to me, this one did. Should I move to Oklahoma? I said it out loud, “Should I move to Oklahoma?” and the next commercial break, it ran again.…