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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Posts by: Bernadette Murphy
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 marriage.
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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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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.
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