Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, a holiday I have always been ambivalent toward. On the one hand, I love the idea (and I stress the word idea) that we as a nation come together in the spirit of gratefulness, to spend...
Like many of you, I was mortified to learn of the acts of violence that erupted last Friday night in Paris, leaving more than 150 people dead, and countless others wounded physically and emotionally. My feelings of horror were...
According to the Briggs Myer Personality test, I am an INFJ. I am introverted with a quiet and reserved disposition. Even though I have used Palooke’s World as a space to share perhaps more than I would normally, outside...
It’s November, and in a few days I will be making my transition from merely being “30” to being IN my 30s. Apparently there is a BIG difference between the two. There are a lot of realities of life...
One of the major downfalls that I have observed from formerly successful people is not that the work simply dried up, or that they were no longer popular. Rather, they surrounded themselves with toxic people who led them to...
One night during Bible Study at my church, a fellow parishioner made a comment about the difficulty we have with accepting grace. Her point, in essence, was that we often feel we must earn what we receive and thus...
I am sure that we have all been guilty of this before, and we have all been on the receiving end of it as well: advice that hurts. It may hurt for different reasons. Perhaps it hurts because it...
I have said this before, but it bears repeating: I hate waiting! Even though I’ve talked about how there are lessons in waiting, I still do not find it enjoyable and will avoid it whenever I can. Unfortunately, waiting,...
When I spent a semester living in Ghana during my junior year in college, I enjoyed studying the differences between American culture and Ghanaian culture, and contemplating the significance of these differences. I discovered that certain behaviors I assumed...
Hello, my name is Palooke and I am addicted to my electronics, especially my cell phone. Now you may be saying to yourself, her momma did not name her Palooke, and she cannot make a real confession under an...