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Bernadette Murphy

Bernadette Murphy is the author of Harley and Me: Embracing Risk on the Road to a More Authentic Life. She has published three previous books of narrative nonfiction including the bestselling Zen and the Art of Knitting, is an Associate Professor in the Creative Writing Department of Antioch University Los Angeles, and a former weekly book critic for the Los Angeles Times. Her website is Bernadette-Murphy.com.

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Bernadette Murphy

May 8, 2016

The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Evolve or Die

In an excerpt from her forthcoming memoir Harley and Me: Embracing Risk on the Road to a More Authentic Life, the author shares what she learned studying sea life on the island Mo’orea.
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Bernadette Murphy

Aug 4, 2013

The Sunday Rumpus Essay: The Last First Day

“My desires had now become too big, the call to a larger life too loud to be easily hushed.” As her children age and her identity as a Mother shifts, the author must step outside the safety of an outgrown…
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Bernadette Murphy

Mar 24, 2013

The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Totally Hosed

“In that instant, I believed I had killed him. And that my life, as I’d known it, had just ended.”
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Bernadette Murphy

Jul 22, 2012

Sunday Rumpus Essay: Don’t Call Me Biker Chick

She is middle-aged, with three nearly grown children and no tattoos, when learning to ride a motorcycle named Izzy teaches her to live fully and without fear.