After her divorce, a Kansas woman starts over with her old garden by moving it to an entirely new yard and helping it bloom.

A New Beginning

(Originally published: May/June 2007)

The divorce three years ago, though "amicable," was still difficult for Sharon Weiser.

Everything was changing.

She picked out a new last name—her mother's maiden name—and bought a 1915 foursquare house in Troy, Kansas, 30 miles southwest of the Missouri farm she had shared with her husband.

The benefit: She'd be 30 miles closer to her job teaching psychology and guiding students' academic progress at Highland Community College in nearby Highland.

The drawbacks: Not only would she live farther from her closest friends, she'd lose the lush one-acre cottage garden she had so carefully designed and tended.

So she took it with her instead.

"Before I had any furniture moved to my new home, I had a pallet of mulch delivered," Sharon says.

A woman's got to have her priorities.

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