After losing job, Bellingham widow dives into research and writing

Janet Oakley, 65, of Bellingham faced two big changes in her life by going back to one of her first loves.
Big life change #1: Oakley, the mother of three boys and now a grandmother, had to deal with the unexpected death of her husband of 27 years. Rolf Oakley, a Vietnam veteran and a geologist, died of a heart attack in October 2001.
"You never expect to be a widow at age 55," she says.