Justin Tadlock

I graduated last week — Thursday, May 10. It was one of the most boring experiences of my life. I don’t even remember half the ceremony. I may have fell asleep a few times. I happened not to sleep the night before. I was just so wired. But, when [...]

Today was my last day of class in college, at least until I eventually come back. It’s also the day before my birthday.
I thought about not blogging today in remembrance of the Virginia Tech victims, and participating in One Day Blog Silence. Well, I’ve been silent long enough since the day’s almost [...]

Or, as Joel’s dad mentions, “Sometime’s you just gotta say, ‘What the heck.’”
Today I said it. Well, I said what Joel’s dad said. I just don’t think the F-bomb rolls off my countrified tongue as nice. “What the heck” is much more poetic, don’t you think?
Have to write a 10-page paper by [...]

I don’t like that I had to buy two copies of Wuthering Heights for The 19th Century British Novel. The on-campus bookstore should’ve had the correct version to start with.
I do like my Bible as Literature class. There’s way too much homework, but I enjoy learning new things about the Bible. [...]

I think I’ve heard something to this effect before. And that’s what my life is all about. I live five days a week, only in anticipation for two.
Believe me, my weekends are nothing to get excited about. But, I wait for them anyway. I usually sit around and watch a TV [...]

I just got off the phone with a guy from India who works for Amazon’s customer service department. Yes, I asked where he was from. I think it was because I’ve been reading The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman. And reading [...]

My first day back to school. In just a few short hours I’ll have to wake up and go to my first class of my last semester. I’ll admit, I feel unprepared for what lies ahead in the coming months and the coming years. Maybe not entirely unprepared, but worried nonetheless.
My life, [...]

What can you do with an English major? That has been a concern for me ever since I stepped into my first upper-level English course.
This runs parallel to the major question in any person’s life, especially a soon-to-be college graduate’s: What am I supposed to do? Or, what next? We’re always [...]

Taylor Caldin and Jordan Hill sat in a booth at Sammy’s next to the front window, sucking the last of their shakes. It was 11:30, half an hour before closing, and Taylor’s mother, Jean, who worked there, was wiping the counter clean. Taylor was an only child. His father hadn’t lived with [...]

Making the Grade at a Top American High School
There are more and more books coming out each year that try and uncover what it means to be a public high school student today. Edward Humes does this beautifully, but he takes a different route. He goes into the heart of one of the [...]