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Forty and Flourishing: What Life Actually Feels Like at 41
They say your 40s are when you have it figured out. Really, it is when you realise nobody else does either.
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Chocolate Cake and the Art of Wanting Things
Imagining exactly what you want down to the last detail, and what happens when reality delivers something else.
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Long Time No See: What Happens to Every Resolution I Make
Resolutions fizzle, guilt does the rest. On writing again because the shame finally outweighed the laziness.
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What a Wonderful World: Turning 35 and Taking Stock
A landmark birthday, a graph of high highs and low lows, and gratitude for every bit of it.
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I Suffer From: Midnight Anxiety and an Overloaded Brain
Waking at 3 am wondering where the passport is. On the mental cache we all run and never clear.
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Why Is Everything So Fast? On Resolutions That Quietly Die
Half of January gone and none of the plans started. On time speeding up and good intentions fading out.
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Joyful or Simply Drunk? A New Year’s Eve Post-Mortem
Two parties, one resort off Highway 1, and the question of whether any of us were actually happy.
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The Little Joys of Life: Looking Back on an Unpredictable Decade
A career I thought had ended, a life I could not have predicted, and the small things that carried me through.
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The Art of Doing Nothing: In Defence of a Lazy Weekend
Why staying indoors, wandering room to room and achieving nothing is a perfectly respectable weekend.
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Sirens and Then: The Sound of Living in San Francisco
Fire engines heard through noise-cancelling windows, and what that sound comes to mean when you live alone.