Follow the adventures of Boots as she emerges from the first stages of grief and widowhood and creates a different life in a new community. Read her soul-searching diary excerpts. Be with her in her Illinois attic churning up dust and memories. Be at her side purchasing land and orchestrating the construction of her dream home high on a forested mountain. She was 62 by the time she arrived in Colorado – rare for a widow in 1984 to have struck out on her own this way. Her tale has something for everyone – adventure, wildlife, domestic animals, romance, politics, civic and church involvement, and facing advancing age head-on. Widow in the Woods will assure women and men of any age that the world doesn’t need to end when death or divorce takes your lifetime partner.
