re: My father recently passed. I want to be there for my mother, but how?

It's alway hard for someone to lose their mate, i'm no young person, but from what I've noticed in my own family as well as many others is that its much harder on a husband to lose his wife of many years and carry on, then it is for a wife to lose her husband. For some reason the female in the marriage always seemed to bounce back a lot quicker and move on in her life then the male. I don't know why that is, its just my observation during my lifetime. I'm betting that your mom will do fine. And I'm sorry for you and your family's loss of your dad.