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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.

    Neha Thapar
    April 3, 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

  • I Am a Girl and I Hate Stuffed Toys: On Corporate Women’s Events

    They handed out stuffed dogs at a women in leadership panel. Nobody hands crocodiles to men in tech.

    Neha Thapar
    January 19, 2019

  • You Are an Idiot and I Can’t Say It to Your Face: Working With Difficult People

    Everything that runs through my head when dealing with wilful incompetence, and why none of it gets said.

    Neha Thapar
    January 11, 2019

  • 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

  • Adjusted for Inflation: Fighting With Your Spouse About Money

    One expensive holiday booking, one furious husband, and what money arguments in a marriage are really about.

    Neha Thapar
    December 13, 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

  • Uniquely Yours: An Anniversary Nine Time Zones Apart

    Nine years of marriage, much of it long distance, and an anniversary that ends before it has properly begun.

    Neha Thapar
    December 9, 2018

  • Shopping Addiction: What 400 Square Feet of Stuff Taught Me

    A friend’s studio packed to the ceiling, and the buying pattern I started noticing in everyone, myself included.

    Neha Thapar
    December 8, 2018

  • Drowning: When You Become Everyone’s Sounding Board

    Year-end chaos, endless requests to chat, and the quiet cost of being the person everyone leans on.

    Neha Thapar
    December 4, 2018

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Glitter in my greys

Because midlife deserves more sparkle and less subtlety.

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