I never saw the ice But I felt it The back end of the pickup I was driving mdash my grandfather rsquo s mdash fishtailed One swerve two three mdash and I was airborne flying off a fifteen-foot embankment I remember thinking This would be awesome if I wasn rsquo t going to die A moment later the truck crunched into the steep slope and rolled to the bottom I crawled out of the crushed cab unscathed The truck was utterly totaled that December morning in God had spared me But what about my grandfather What would he say In [... more]