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gathering in circle . . .

May 8, 2024 | kerrindochartaigh.substack.com | Kerri Ní Dochartaigh |Caro Giles

Summer has come back to us, and we are here releasing our long held winter breath, and remembering how to sing. And I wonder what else we have forgotten in that long, dark, cold season, that feels only just to be letting go of his tight, icy grip? What are you making room for, once more, in your core? What are you welcoming back up, long buried beneath your surface? As the summer dances, what do you want to remember how to do, how to be, how to dream?
The great rampage of becoming

Mar 4, 2024 | annapulley.substack.com | Anna Pulley |Russell Nohelty |Nicola Washington |Caro Giles

“There is no love of life without despair of life”—Albert CamusIt's been two weeks since Nex Benedict, a 16-year-old nonbinary teenager, died after a hateful attack at their Oklahoma school. I keep trying to write this newsletter—ostensibly about joy and creativity and queerness and books—and I can’t seem to. When I was a repressed queer teenager in Arizona, every story I heard about queer people involved violence. There was Matthew Shepherd, of course, and Brandon Teena.
"I don't know where I come from, really"

Nov 17, 2023 | annieridout.substack.com | Caro Giles |Annie Ridout

Nov 17 • 42MAudio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Appears in this episodeA podcast about 'Home'. Whether it's where we were raised, or where we are now and the part this plays in our identity. Also, how to create a sense of 'belonging', wherever you live. In today’s episode of Home podcast, I’m speaking with Caro Giles. Caro is a writer and mum-of-four, based in Northumberland.
Bedbug stories trigger my OCD - this is how I manage it (and sleep at night)

Oct 13, 2023 | inews.co.uk | Caro Giles |Eleanor Peake

First PersonIn recent weeks when I’ve been reading the paper or scrolling on news websites I’ve had a slightly sick sensation in my stomach. Not due to endless stories about violent conflict or apocalyptic weather, but because of the frequent articles about bedbugs. Even typing the word bedbugs makes me feel deeply uncomfortable, because it taps into something inside me that triggers my OCD.
Rediscovering my voice after divorce (By Caro Giles)

Feb 26, 2023 | thesinglesupplement.substack.com | Caro Giles |Nicola Slawson

Good afternoon and happy Sunday, I’m thrilled I’ve managed to actually get this out on Sunday. My goal is to get back to Sunday offerings but sometimes life and things out of my control get in the way. Today’s offering is a beautiful guest piece written exclusively for The Single Supplement by the writer Caro Giles fresh off launching her first book Twelve Moons: A Year Under a Shared Skyinto the world.
‘Was I naive to think I could have children and a successful career?’

Jan 23, 2023 | graziadaily.co.uk | Caro Giles

When I was a child, I didn’t know it would be possible to lose myself. No one told me how fragile that sense of self is. How, like the candles I burn every morning, it can easily be snuffed out. Following the end of my marriage after more than 20 years together, I was hurled into a world of isolation from family and friends in the wilderness of Northumberland, while caring for a very poorly child. I could no longer define myself as half of a couple; I didn’t want to be half of anything.