It All Began When.... Let me tell you a short story: Once upon a time (don't they all start like this?), a guy fell in love with a supposedly wonderful girl, got dumped by the girl whom he thought was the love of his life. He sulked about it for a while, got over it, and in getting on with his life began writing poetry. The book you're holding in your hands, and hopefully enjoying, is the result of that tribulation. At first, when I let people read my early pieces, some of them would utter; "okay, so who broke your heart?" At first these comments would upset me because I felt the readers was missing the whole dynamic meaning of the poem because they, in their limited exposure to poetry, were focusing on one general area of the piece. Well, life has dramatically changed for me and my travels down this road of poetry writing has taken many wonderful twists and turns. Now I'm at the point where I can say with a resolute that indeed my poetry writing career did spring from a shattered heart. Sometimes, when you think that your glass is just about to run dry, the universe comes along and fills it up with something that's more quenching then what was originally there. That, my dear friend, is what poetry writing is all about.....