Caroline Yarborough
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'Little Panic' Book Review
I find it ironic that on Mental Health Awareness Day, I am writing a review for a book about a mental illness. Little Panic came into my life through an email from a book store. It was a new release, and honestly, the cover was too pretty to ignore. It had to be mine.
By Caroline Yarborough5 years ago in Geeks
Home and the Heart
How do you define home? Is it where you live? Is it where you love? Is it based on people? How you feel there? Religion? Where your family is? Where you work? The school you go to? Location? There are so many ways that people try to define this abstract concept of home. While this struggle of definition seems unimportant to most groups of people in the world, it is a constant question for college students. They are the ones that this confusion affects. These students have just left their childhood home to live out a new adventure, in all of its terrifying and confusing glory. But is that new place home, or the one that was left behind? The question of home and belonging is a huge issue in the transitional time of young adulthood.
By Caroline Yarborough6 years ago in Education
Depth and Paper Swans
It has recently occurred to me that we exist outside of our own understanding of ourselves. I am not me in all my depth to my neighbor, or to the person in the striped backpack sitting beside me in class. I am a stranger, with a strange story. Perhaps no story at all.
By Caroline Yarborough6 years ago in Poets
'Little Fires Everywhere' Book Review
This book caught me off guard. It came into my life when I was checking out an adorable bookstore near my college. Throughout each shelf, they would have a couple staff recommendations with little cards on the books saying what that staff member liked about it. I loved the idea, so I went through the store and looked at each staff recommendation in the fiction section (and trust me, there were a lot). I ended up stopping in front of this gem. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng.
By Caroline Yarborough6 years ago in Geeks
South Carolina
The stagnant, steamy air clings to every memory I have of that nearly perfect place. Muted light and mosquitoes buzzing around my ankles linger in the thoughts. Bending and reaching in all directions, unkempt grass covers the yard. Sun-bleached and skinless, a snake lies on the cracked, flaking concrete surrounding the emerald colored pool. I can’t remember a time where the pool wasn’t that deep emerald color. Rusted metal and moldy wood barely hold together the dilapidated trailer rotting against the chain link fence. Mirrored walls and tiny carousel horses haunt my mind, bringing waves of grief and peace all at once. The newspapers resting on the window seat, holding the pungent scent of cigarette smoke within their inky skin, still lay there in my mind. Washing over me are the earthy smells of rain and soil. The careless way the porch swing creaked and swayed, letting its rhythm drift away in the nighttime air has its place in my memory. That stunning tree towering over the grassy lawn will eternally exist in the images I have of the house.
By Caroline Yarborough6 years ago in Poets