"Writing's something I've always done. My imagination kind of turned into words, and I'd start putting those words on a page."

VOA: special.2010.04.05

In other words, my experience I think predisposed me to being interested in the kind of phenomena that people in these extreme and unusual environments encounter. With Shackletons experience in mind, John Geiger started to investigate whether other people facing death or extreme fear had faced similar situations.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

"I never done it in my life - I don't,know kind of hard, that's why I am still here - unemployed."

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

That's the kind of letter people use to write when they went off to Vietnam in my era."

VOA: standard.2010.04.27

"I definitely think, as far as my writing goes, I kind of opened myself up a lot more than I normally have,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.15

"In my experience,anyway, sometimes it just kind of pops into your head and you go with it.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

He never goes on camera. "It kind of feels like my voice in their head.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

You know,he kind of followed in my footsteps but has passed me way up.

VOA: standard.2010.02.28

"You know, I was an avid skateboarder as a kid." "I had a big half-pipe in my backyard and that's what kind of drew me to snowboarding initially.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

This kind of stuff just doesn't exist. It does in my world.

VOA: standard.other

"It's a 24/7 kind of commitment, which is why it's nice for me at this stage of my life to be able to take care of my son at night.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

(WHOOSH) My family,we're different from others of our kind.

VOA: standard.other

"It is like quite a monumental event, like Elvis dying or JFK being shot or something and yeah, just completely stunned really, so I cannot really imagine a bigger kind of thing happening in my lifetime,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

And then he came home from his first tour and before he went up home to Davis,he came to dinner and my mom fixed a roast, prime rib and all that kind of stuff, and it was really nice.

VOA: standard.2010.05.31