I have had five near death experiences. Ages 6, 16, 26, 36, 60. I write about what I have learned from each one and how my life transformed at the time.
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 […]