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Reluctant Farewell to a Dear Heart

The birth of “Reluctant Farewell to a Dear Heart”

With the help of my encouraging husband, Reluctant Farewell to a Dear Heart was finally published and will soon be up and running through Amazon and other sites. Most of the pieces in this book came rushing into my heart and fingers from January 2010 though April 2010. I had never been inspired in quite […]

Keep Grandma in her home…Dena Kleinsorge is living at home again—Written in September 2011

I have since had to accept that Mom can’t live with us anymore.  It was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to decide.  I visit with her on the phone every evening and we pray together.  She always wants to come home and I wish I had the help and energy to do that for […]

Mary and Dena Kleinsorge share a birthday kiss

Dena Kleinsorge turned 85 on Thursday, March 29th

If Daddy were alive, it would have been his birthday, too. But, it was just us celebrating Mom’s birthday and she and Daddy’s anniversary. If he were here, he would have been 94 and they would have been married 66 years. They got married on their birthdays and Daddy still forgot from time to time! […]

Time on the sea for music and me…

The past two and a half days I’ve seen a handful of thankful patients in my Baja officina and that is always rewarding. But the luxurious gift that I’ve given myself is the hours that I’ve spent playing my music to the sea. My new travel banjo and my guitar are such comforting travel companions. […]