Loonatics Keep Swimming

By Jean Saunders Duling

In this memoir, Jean Saunders Duling recounts how she persevered through multiple sclerosis (MS) and other storms of life. After her marriage to Wes, they built a house on an almost-impenetrable ledge overlooking a pond in Maine, and she fell in love with the loons that lived there . She likens herself to a loon as she dives to the depths to find the fish of life--her food, her strength, her family. As she struggles with the diagnosis of MS, she has a near-death experience and hears God say to her, "You have more to do." She ponders what God meant as she carefully makes decisions at crossroads in her life.She learns ways to cope, change life direction to stay positive, find sources and reasons to be alive and swim and sing with echoing resonances for others to hear. With an honest voice, and at times a bit of humor, Jean writes about her early years, meeting her husband Wes, the arduous task of building a home on a ledge, a pet raccoon, her children and grandchildren, COVID19, her trips, her life as a snowbird to Marco Island, and living with MS.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0DF2G6FXZ
• ISBN13: 9798329347753
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 158 Pages
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"