I read a lot early on and the worlds I was immersed in were just wonderful. I started when I was 13 and short stories on a writing pad passed through the hands of my girlfriends. In school we read poetry in German and that's when I was blown away. My first and favorite poem is by Robert Frost: Nothing Can Stay Gold. I think it is beautiful that there is no single meaning. For everyone, the written word has a very personal meaning.
