Resilience

As I said in an earlier post, my mom could be the poster child for resilience. My friends comment on how young she sounds. Like my father, she has never seen herself as old. And not because she is in great health, she has severe osteoporosis and a pacemaker. But like my dad, who had [...]

This is Lou Pelletier  continuing my saga of “resilience” building experiences….   During my seventh year, a new addition came to our family – a second brother, named Peter.  At eight years of age, I recall my sister, brother and I would  go a couple of blocks up the street and cross to visit our Aunt [...]

Are you a Red Sox fan? Are you a bleeding heart, long suffering, follower, who prior to 2004 just waited for their beloved team to win—next year?? If so, then there is no reason to explain resilience to you. Because as a Red Sox fan you lived it. I came from a Red Sox family. [...]

My mom is 92 and soon to be 93 . Some of my friends believe she should be the ” poster child ” for the Maine resilience project. Confident, flexible and an optimist. She says she didn’t plan on living this long. She thought she would die soon after my dad. That was 15 years [...]

I agree forced retirement caused by a medical condition requires resilience. I have primary progress multiple sclerosis with lower body paralysis. I have been wheelchair bound since 1992. I am a librarian and I worked in a primary school. It was a job I loved. My library assistant and I had worked together for 17 [...]