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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.

    Neha Thapar
    April 23, 2025

  • 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.

    Neha Thapar
    April 7, 2019

  • 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.

    Neha Thapar
    April 3, 2019

  • 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.

    Neha Thapar
    February 23, 2019

  • 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.

    Neha Thapar
    January 31, 2019

  • 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.

    Neha Thapar
    January 15, 2019

  • 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.

    Neha Thapar
    January 1, 2019

  • 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.

    Neha Thapar
    December 30, 2018

  • 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.

    Neha Thapar
    December 15, 2018

  • 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.

    Neha Thapar
    December 10, 2018

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Glitter in my greys

Because midlife deserves more sparkle and less subtlety.

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