The phone calls come to me at different times throughout the day. But the topic is always the same, the deep lonesomeness she is experiencing. Though her schedule is always packed and the house filled with noise, the grief of losing a life partner and the solitude that comes with that sometimes gets to be too much for her bear. My mother Ruth Garber Shere talks about what it means to be widowed and what to do when that loneliness strikes. This is Beek on being WIDOWED