The Glass Tears Poem Journal

About the Book

A ray of sunlight came through a pane in the glass studio workshop. The scrap glass bucket was nearly full. On top of this heap was a hardened drip of glass that had carelessly fallen from a glass artist’s punti. Glimmering in the sunlight that morning was the very first Glass Teardrop. It may have remained just scrap until the simple words “glass tears” softly whispered in the imagination of a would-be poet. Two totally different art forms were about to be married. The story of Glass Tears is purely serendipitous. The need for a unique and meaningful sympathy gift happened at just about the same time as the glass teardrop appeared at the studio. The poem, Glass Tears came to Randal S. Doaty as unexpectedly as the teardrop itself. He had never written a poem before, but he felt the need to give his new teardrop a voice. The Glass Tears Poem Journal is a collection of what many different Glass Tears have spoken through the voice of this poet.

About the Author

Arline Gaugler began writing her first manuscript for a book in 1992 shortly after she retired from working at the age of sixty-four. In total, Arline has written twelve manuscripts, which have all remained unpublished until her self-published Benjamin Makes His Mark in late 2012. At the age of eighty-four, Arline Gaugler was finally able to see her dream of publishing her first book come to pass. Arline was born in Bally, Pennsylvania, in 1928 and lived with her parents, Eva Reigner Gaugler and Harry Warmuth Gaugler, for her entire life. Arline was never married and did not have any children. She began reading paperback novels after the death of her mother in 1992 and then decided she wanted to write books. Stories of the past that her parents and grandparents shared with her were precious to her, and they became the focus of her writing. Arline worked most of her life as a telephone operator before the time of automatic call switching. She connected callers by manually plugging in phone lines to complete the connection. She originally worked for the Conestoga Telephone Company in Sassamansville and later in their Boyertown office in rural Pennsylvania. When technology eliminated the need for manual switch operators, Arline finished her communications career as a private switchboard operator for C. S. Garber & Sons Inc. well drillers in Boyertown, Pennsylvania. Arline believes that anyone who has words stored in their hearts should share them with the world no matter what their age. It took Arline eighty-four years to make her mark.