READER'S ROCK LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE VOL 2 ISSUE 4 NOVEMBER 2014 VOL 2 ISSUE 3 OCTOBER 2014 | Page 26

Is 'Anna's Journey' really a mystery?
In February 2011, I published my first book,
“Anna's Journey: How many lives does one
person get?” From the title one might
correctly guess that the book is a biography,
or perhaps more accurately an
autobiography. However, the subtitle of
“How many lives does one person get?”
may also suggest that it is a mystery. Do
you know the answer to the question?
Perhaps technically the answer to that
question is ONE! We are all born and we
all die. Now, it is true that some people have
their heart stop and get restarted but once
someone is “brain dead” your life is over
and you don't get a second chance at life.
With the first Anna's Journey book, several
situations and life challenges occurred that
could have… and perhaps should have…
resulted in death – the end of this life.
However, for various reasons… some of
which are total mysteries… and quite
obviously my life did not end since I am
still alive and able to share.
How many readers see the cover of a
book as a mystery? The title, also a
mystery? What is hidden between the
covers of a book? What does that title really
mean? How many times have you been in a
book store and had those questions run
through your mind; or, perhaps you are
standing in a library; or, more likely today
you'll be looking at Amazon or other online
book site. And when you get to have a
sneak peak between the covers, do you take
that opportunity to see what the author has
written… to solve the mystery of what is

there to be discovered?
For the readers of “Anna's Journey:
How many lives does one person get?” there
were many scenarios. As a young teenager,
I was amazed and shocked at a fast moving
thunderstorm that produced deadly
lightning. While there were at least a dozen
teens on the beach that day, only two were
killed when the lightning struck. We have
often wondered WHY… why were the rest
of us not electrocuted by that lightning
strike? Why was the earth around the dead
couple not electrified to injure anyone else?
A definite mystery… one that I survived!


A little more than two years later,
another mystery occurred… a freak car
accident… a deadly car accident. When the
police investigated, when people saw
pictures of the car, and when I stop to think
of how the accident played out – there are a
ton of unanswered questions, most
especially how did I walk away without