diff --git a/grace.go b/grace.go
index 48da639..fd1b0b6 100644
--- a/grace.go
+++ b/grace.go
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ func (c conn) Close() error {
 	return c.Conn.Close()
 }
 
-// Create a new listener.
+// Wraps an existing File listener to provide a graceful Close() process.
 func NewListener(l Listener) Listener {
 	i := &listener{
 		Listener:     l,
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ func (l *listener) Accept() (net.Conn, error) {
 	}, nil
 }
 
-// Wait for signals.
+// Wait for signals to gracefully terminate or restart the process.
 func Wait(listeners []Listener) (err error) {
 	ch := make(chan os.Signal, 2)
 	signal.Notify(ch, syscall.SIGTERM, syscall.SIGUSR2)
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ func Wait(listeners []Listener) (err error) {
 	panic("not reached")
 }
 
-// Try to inherit listeners from environment variables.
+// Try to inherit listeners from the parent process.
 func Inherit() (listeners []Listener, err error) {
 	countStr := os.Getenv(envCountKey)
 	if countStr == "" {
@@ -179,12 +179,13 @@ func Inherit() (listeners []Listener, err error) {
 	return
 }
 
-// Start the Close process in the parent.
+// Start the Close process in the parent. This does not wait for the
+// parent to close and simply sends it the TERM signal.
 func CloseParent() error {
 	return syscall.Kill(os.Getppid(), syscall.SIGTERM)
 }
 
-// Restart the process passing it the given listeners.
+// Restart the process passing the given listeners to the new process.
 func Restart(listeners []Listener) (err error) {
 	if len(listeners) == 0 {
 		return errors.New("restart must be given listeners.")
diff --git a/gracehttp/http.go b/gracehttp/http.go
index ebab2c7..836c4be 100644
--- a/gracehttp/http.go
+++ b/gracehttp/http.go
@@ -19,15 +19,15 @@ type Handler struct {
 	Handler http.Handler
 }
 
-type Handlers []Handler
+type handlersSlice []Handler
 
 var (
-	verbose                     = flag.Bool("gracehttp.log", true, "Enable logging.")
-	ErrUnexpectedListenersCount = errors.New("unexpected listeners count")
+	verbose           = flag.Bool("gracehttp.log", true, "Enable logging.")
+	errListenersCount = errors.New("unexpected listeners count")
 )
 
 // Creates new listeners for all the given addresses.
-func (handlers Handlers) newListeners() ([]grace.Listener, error) {
+func (handlers handlersSlice) newListeners() ([]grace.Listener, error) {
 	listeners := make([]grace.Listener, len(handlers))
 	for index, pair := range handlers {
 		addr, err := net.ResolveTCPAddr("tcp", pair.Addr)
@@ -45,9 +45,9 @@ func (handlers Handlers) newListeners() ([]grace.Listener, error) {
 }
 
 // Serve on the given listeners and wait for signals.
-func (handlers Handlers) serveWait(listeners []grace.Listener) error {
+func (handlers handlersSlice) serveWait(listeners []grace.Listener) error {
 	if len(handlers) != len(listeners) {
-		return ErrUnexpectedListenersCount
+		return errListenersCount
 	}
 	errch := make(chan error, len(listeners)+1) // listeners + grace.Wait
 	for i, l := range listeners {
@@ -71,11 +71,11 @@ func (handlers Handlers) serveWait(listeners []grace.Listener) error {
 	return <-errch
 }
 
-// Serve will listen on the given address. It will also wait for a
-// SIGUSR2 signal and will restart the server passing the active listener
-// to the new process and avoid dropping active connections.
+// Serve will serve the given pairs of addresses and listeners and
+// will monitor for signals allowing for graceful termination (SIGTERM)
+// or restart (SIGUSR2).
 func Serve(givenHandlers ...Handler) error {
-	handlers := Handlers(givenHandlers)
+	handlers := handlersSlice(givenHandlers)
 	listeners, err := grace.Inherit()
 	if err == nil {
 		err = grace.CloseParent()
diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bc83fcb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/readme.md
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+go.grace
+========
+
+Package grace provides a library that makes it easy to build socket
+based servers that can be gracefully terminated & restarted (that is,
+without dropping any connections).
+
+Demo HTTP Server with graceful termination and restart:
+https://github.com/nshah/go.grace/blob/master/gracedemo/demo.go
+
+http level graceful termination and restart:
+http://go.pkgdoc.org/github.com/nshah/go.grace/gracehttp
+
+net.Listener level graceful termination and restart:
+http://go.pkgdoc.org/github.com/nshah/go.grace