Purple Converse Draft

Hello World, Attached to the end of this post is a draft of my story: Purple Converse. It is the story of a man who is on the brink of depression and than he encounters a woman named Grace who has an unusual secret. This story is not finished yet but I hope you enjoy […]

Do “smart people” not like sports?

I have been wondering this question ever since I saw an episode of the Big Bang Theory where Leonard was trying to understand how the game of football works. I know this friend, Mark, who is a really smart person and he does not like sports. I know this other friend, Molly, who is also a […]

AOL is the WORST Service Ever!

In the past few days I have had four e-mail messages come back to me saying that they could not be delivered. These four messages were sent to four different people. One was a new contact of mine, one was a reply to someone who e-mailed me a week earlier, and the other two were […]

Sleep Deprevation is REAL!

If I don’t get a solid six hours of sleep each night, I will be extremely tired throughout the day. The amount of sleep that I procure affects me energy level as well as my confidence level. I have studied my sleep habits throughout a month and realized that if I get less than the […]

Why I Can’t Lose Weight?

I have always been a little over weight my entire life and I never fully understood why I couldn’t get it under control. I have tried exercising everyday and watching what I eat on a daily basis. This generally stopped me from gaining weight but never enabled me to lose weight. My theory is that […]

Movie Review: XOXO

A couple of weeks ago, I watched this movie that just got released on Netflix: XOXO. It is a Netflix Original movie with a tremendous story and great music to go with it. The movie follows the journey of six people who go to the biggest rave in America, XOXO, in Portland, Oregon. It shows […]

That One Employee That Carries the Team!

I have a feeling that at some point in everyone’s lives, they were in a group doing a project and everyone in the group was totally worthless. Okay, maybe not totally worthless, but pretty close to it. This happened to me recently. I only go into work Monday through Wednesday because I only work as […]

The Start of a New Story

Just recently I have started to write a new story around the concept of a briefcase that is bigger on the inside. This is similar to Doctor Who and the Tardis as well as the briefcase from the Fantastic Beast and Where to Find Them movie coming out. However, this new story revolves around the […]

Social Anxiety Sucks

Do you ever feel like you have trouble breathing and concentrating when there are many people in the room? Well, I feel like that almost every time that I go some place crowded with people that I don’t know personally. I like going to college, I enjoy learning new skills and eventually making the world […]

Writer’s Block

Hello, my name is Tom Palladino and I have writer’s block. I am not a professional writer by any sense of the word; I have not made any money of the stories that I have written. However, I do write stories for fun and writing has been also a therapeutic process for me. I have […]