What happens when you need and want to tell the truth about things you can’t quite remember? These blog posts document my many attempts to remember and to tell the truth.
Near Death Experience: Surviving the 1976 Wilshire Boulevard Crash: A True Story of Luck, Loss, and Unseen Protection – Series
I was 23 years old when, on July 5, 1976, my life cracked open on a stretch of Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. The police called it luck that I’d survived—alive, and mostly in one piece.
I’ve come to think of it differently.
Carol, a friend from the East Coast serving in the Navy, was on leave in California. She’d never been to Disneyland, so we planned a trip.
On July 1, we left San Jose in my green-and-white ’73 VW van—curtains, tiny sink, mattress in the back, storage boxes tucked neatly under the bench.
We packed a cooler with drinks and snacks, tossed in our stash of pot and pipes, and stopped for […]