You could feel it build as the women performed. Audiences got transported to this strange club, suspended in disbelief, rooting for everybody to survive. But when the character Secret, written in homage to my late friend Sigrid, did her monologue, people realized they weren’t going to get a happy ending.
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One Last Time
“club termina” gave me the chance to bring my lost friend back onstage for two hours a night. I needed that medicine—because we had both expected to survive, and that’s not what happened.
From Terror to club termina
It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month. And as a survivor, I have a lot to say about it.
When the Doctor Calls on Yom Kippur
Doctors don’t give good news in person on the eve of Yom Kippur. I was really scared.
In the Kitchen with Me: Guest Blog at The Creatively Green Write at Home Mom!
As part of my virtual book tour, I published a particularly hilarious and very true piece at The Creatively Green Write at Home Mom about my complete lack of cooking skills whatsoever.
Mapping the Road Not Taken: Four Egyptian Myths and a Second Chance at Life
Egyptian mythology says that your heart gets weighed against a feather when you die. I like that. You get judged for what you did with the lifetime you just lived. That brings me to today’s magical question: What is the life you’re waiting to live—and when will you begin allowing yourself to live it?
The Power of Telling Stories By, For, and About Women
I am a storyteller. At six years old I told stories that took my character deep into a cave where she discovered walls of colorful jewels and cavernous rooms filled with weird creatures.
Susan Rubin 