In the beginning, there was an introduction.

Starting this blog feels something like finding a dusty brown seed by the side of the road and deciding to bury it in my back yard.  I don't know what strange plant may creep out of the dark soil, but by waiting and nurturing it with a light sprinkling of thoughts and insight, I hope to see it sprout, revealing new flowers and fruit to be digested with eye and intellect.

Like so.

And now, the introduction.  My name is Mike Wilson and I am twenty years old.  I'm beginning my Junior year at the University of Iowa with a major in English/Creative Writing and I'm looking to add Secondary Education to the list.  The process of teaching writing interests me in many different ways as both an avid reader and a student of creative writing.  Approaching writing as a subject to be taught as well as learned provides me with new ways of thinking about what I'm doing here and what I could be doing differently.  I'm looking forward to finding new ways of seeing and teaching writing from the blogs of my professors and fellow classmates.

While I was wildly clicking my way around the Internet, looking for an appropriate name for this blog, I paused on this quote by Anton Chekhov, "Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."  I'd like to keep that here as a way of reminding myself where this blog can go and what I'd like to watch it become.  This concludes the first post in my ongoing blog for Approaches to Teaching Writing (8N:141).  Stay tuned for more.