“I randomly chose 15 poems from many written for my first poetry volume because there are pivotal moments in our lives that affect us in radical ways and, at age fifteen, I met my husband. The roads I’ve traveled from that moment forward twist and turn, taking me many places I may not have otherwise gone. How else would I have lived my life? The possibilities are endless, but there is only one path that each of us can take on our journey to eternity.�