Introductions

I've dabbled in blogs before, and my biggest challenge has always been keeping up with them. They are strangely addictive at first, but then usually I trail off and only post every couple of months. I have been wanting to start a blog about different pieces that I read. I am a writing teacher, and I always talk to (lecture?) my students about how we can better understand what we read through writing because it is through writing that we are able to explore our ideas and opinions. Too often when we read on our own, we become mere consumers of the work and we never achieve a state of intimate involvement. That is my goal for this site - not to entertain or to enlight, but rather to just make me think. Maybe that's too much to ask of a single website, but we'll see.