How to Fall Forward Like My Friend Victoria

     My friend Victoria showed me that when we fall, whether from our failures or things inflicted upon us by others, we don’t have to fall back. We can fall forward.     
     Even through tough times, Victoria’s stock response was “it could be worse.” And she endured tough times: hiding under the kitchen table when Nazi bombs rained upon England during World War II, a hardscrabble upbringing in Liverpool, the death of a husband, raising kids on her own, a foreclosure, and a brain injur...