COVID19 Archives ⋆ Rhiannon Giles

January 21, 2022January 21, 2022 Rhiannon Giles

What Does the Narrator Want

There are certain times in life that feel like dividing lines etched into a window to your psyche. Natural confluences of moments that come together to make you contemplate the “what next” of it all.

Two tents set up in my living room with children doing school inside

COVID19 Parenting

February 5, 2021 Rhiannon Giles

Where is the “Safe” in “Safely Reopening Schools”

The North Carolina General Assembly recently created (and look likely to pass) SB37, “In-Person Learning Choice for Families.”

COVID19 Life

January 29, 2021January 30, 2021 Rhiannon Giles

A Requiem for the Bars

It’s just a bar.

Bars are for sinners.

I’m sorry for the owners, but bars are at the bottom of the list of things to save.

Stevie from Schitts Creek asking "are you okay?"

COVID19 Life Mental Health

September 14, 2020September 14, 2020 Rhiannon Giles

Hey there! Head Tilt How are you?

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When – in the span of five years – you have a very premature baby, your dad dies, and you get divorced, all while intermittently experiencing deep and worrying depression that enhances your normal anxiety, you learn a lot about the “head-tilt hello”.

COVID19 Life

May 19, 2020May 19, 2020 Rhiannon Giles

Aging in the Age of Corona

~~Tomorrow~~ Today is my 39th birthday.

I’m excited to spend the next year in anticipation of 40 — I know a lot of women who fully grew into themselves in their 40s and continue to up their ass-kicking quotient as they go. I just hope I’m able to have a 40th birthday party the way god intended — drunk, in a bar, hugging everyone. I have the feeling this 40th trip around the sun will be nothing if not interesting. And also a little boring, probably. Hopefully.