My Second Life

Can you judge a book by its cover? Can you judge the burden a man carries on his shoulders by the clothes he wears on his back?We all have two lives. We only get to experience living in the second after we realize we only have just one.I have my first real scare in life when I get attacked by a kangaroo when I am seven. My first brush with the cliff-face edge of death comes when I am 12. My dad drives the family down the dangerous Skipper's Canyon dirt road in New Zealand in a rented minivan.Including the occasion I am almost involved in two different plane flight crashes, in the same night, there have been at least a half dozen more occasions when I have been within a moment's inattention of being killed.However, none of those frightening incidents compare to what I experienced after my son was abducted.This memoir is the story of how I used the traumatic experiences of my life to give me strength to forge on during a 13 year fight to be a father to my son.What did it take for me to get to my second life?It took me to truly understand what fear is.