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Sexual assault

My Puberty Blues and beyond

April 3, 2021April 2, 2021 Erica Murdoch5 Comments

Warning: There are references to sexual assault in this piece.

1974: Back row of the classroom where the 13-year-old boys take you for a fingering session.

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Books and reading · Reading

Summer of ‘79

February 27, 2021 Erica Murdoch2 Comments


Summer holidays means putting on the Golden Breed T-shirt and the wrap around batik skirt. Summer means cuddling up to a blonde bloke with scraggy hair who smells of surf and weed and sex. We sit around a campfire on the back beach. Someone burps in the dark.

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America, my beautiful
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America, my beautiful

January 23, 2021 Erica Murdoch6 Comments

My love affair with America began with TV in the 1970s.

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writing

The Last Christmas

December 25, 2020 Erica Murdoch4 Comments

The first time I cook a turkey is a week before my mother dies.

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cats

Farewell little cat

December 4, 2020December 5, 2020 Erica Murdoch3 Comments

On a hot night in early  February 2001, two kittens were dumped over our fence. Continue reading “Farewell little cat” →

podcasts

Podcasts. What the hell are they?

November 3, 2020November 3, 2020 Erica Murdoch2 Comments

I’m a late convert to podcasts. My introduction was on a camping trip when a friend sat on a chair for five days straight as she listened to Serial. I didn’t get it.

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grief

Three women

October 17, 2020 Erica MurdochLeave a comment

To honour three women who have died recently I decided to have a day doing ‘stuff’ in their memory.

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The Power of a good hug
Friendship

The Power of a good hug

October 6, 2020 Erica Murdoch4 Comments

We all know the rules of social distancing in these Covid times. The idea of masking up and the importance of doing the right thing.

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Adventures · walking

A walk amongst the graves

September 21, 2020 Erica Murdoch2 Comments

I went for a walk through Coburg cemetery the other day. Not somewhere I’d normally go but it’s within my 5 km limit plus I’d run out of walks. Not hard during a pandemic when you end up feeling that you’re walking around in circles.

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Birthday celebration · Uncategorized

A very pandemic birthday

September 12, 2020 Erica MurdochLeave a comment

I woke with a start on the eve of my birthday. It was 4am and my heart was racing. I woke from a dream where the sky had turned inky black and the turreted faux-Dakota building apartment complex across the valley – burst into flames.

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