Meet Ken Rohlf

Ken grew up in South St. Paul, Minnesota, attended the University of Minnesota, and graduated from the U of M Law School. He has practiced law for more than 30 years and currently serves as in-house General Counsel for a large corporation. Ken currently resides in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, is a father of two, and became a doting grandfather for the first time in 2024.

The loss of his wife, Sherri, on Christmas Day, after a short but courageous battle with pancreatic cancer combined with the arrival of his first grandchild inspired Ken to begin writing children’s books.

Readers have fallen in love with his first book, Christmas Sun: A Beautiful Tradition to Remember Grandma. Told from the perspective of a polar bear family, this book is for anyone, young or old, who has lost a loved one. It’s a heartwarming story of the Bear family explaining the loss of Grandma Bear to Little Bear in a simple, honest, and direct way. Readers will be filled with love and fond memories while gaining a beautiful new tradition that will help keep a loved one’s memory alive forever.

In Ken’s Own Words:

“Relying upon my personal experience with grief and loss, I wrote Christmas Sun to promote my mission of keeping the memory of a loved one alive. I hope this book and ornament become part of your Christmas decoration box and that you’ll make reading the book and placing the ornament a meaningful tradition each holiday season.”