By Sammy Ginsberg
When my beloved little sister started high school, I was far away in Scotland and couldn’t be there to support her in person so I collected all my poems from high school, organized them by theme, and wrote her a letter with some advice about each theme.
I printed one copy on Lulu Publishing (now owned by Amazon) and gave it to her as a gift.
Until now, it has just sat in my Google drive. I;ve decided to let it sit on my blog instead. It’s been over ten years since high school. It is over, and I survived. Barely. Now I am a high school teacher. Funny how that happens.
Would love to learn about your thoughts and experiences surviving high school.
Loveeeee,
Sammy
You can’t always get what you want, you get what you need.
The Rolling Stones
Be who you are and say what you mean because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
Dr. Seuss
Letter #1: The Importance of Friends & Family
- “sorry i exist”
- B-Rated Coffee Shop
- Blow Up Doll
- I Feel Weird
- Locked in my Eyes
- Franken-Sammy
- Farty Thoughts
- Marvel
- Inspired by “Welcome Go”
- Poet in Head
- Lifee
- Jet Lag
- A Kind of Friend
- Too Skinny?
- Thoughts
- More Thoughts
- Creative Writing Grade and Response
- Boring or a Bitch?
- People Like You But
- Rubber
- My Office
- Thoughts before bed.
- What Do I Want?
- Thumbelina
- Blue
- Boy
- Cruise Crush
- Crush
- Denied
- Get Better
- First Kiss, First Thoughts
- First Kiss
- He Said No
- I will never know you
- Hannah’s Advice
- Eli
- P
- Ode to Weird People
- Random 1
- College To Do
- Last Thursday Night
- Football Game
- School
- Bowdoin, A collection of Haikus
- Ventura County Star Scholar
- No Longer Soon
- John Burnett Hall
- See You Soon
- From Child to College
- Missing
Thank you for reading.