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diff --git a/lib/MooseX/MetaDescription.pm b/lib/MooseX/MetaDescription.pm
index dc4a2b0..4606763 100644
--- a/lib/MooseX/MetaDescription.pm
+++ b/lib/MooseX/MetaDescription.pm
@@ -16,14 +16,33 @@ __END__
 
 =head1 NAME
 
-MooseX::MetaDescription - A Moosey solution to this problem
+MooseX::MetaDescription - A framework for adding additional metadata to Moose classes
 
 =head1 SYNOPSIS
 
-  use MooseX::MetaDescription;
+    package Foo;
+    use Moose;
+
+    has 'bar' => (
+        metaclass   => 'MooseX::MetaDescription::Meta::Attribute',
+        is          => 'ro',
+        isa         => 'Str',   
+        default     => sub { Bar->new() },
+        description => {
+            node_type   => 'element',
+        }
+    );
+
+    ...
+    
+    $foo->meta->description; # { 'Hello' => 'World' }
+    $foo->meta->get_attribute('bar')->description; # { baz   => 'Foo::bar::baz' }    
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
+MooseX::MetaDescription allows you to add arbitrary out of band metadata to your Moose classes and attributes. This will allow you to 
+track out of band data along with attributes, which is very useful for say serializing Moose classes in HTML or XML.
+
 =head1 METHODS 
 
 =over 4
@@ -40,6 +59,9 @@ to cpan-RT.
 
 =head1 AUTHOR
 
+Code and Design originally by Jonathan Rockway in the Ernst module, 
+extracted and refactored by:
+
 Stevan Little E<lt>stevan.little@iinteractive.comE<gt>
 
 =head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE