Karen B. Kaplan

Email: karenbookmankaplan@gmail.com New book: Curiosity Seekers (2017) This offers science fiction that is gentle and sympathetic to the human condition and not the usual dystopian stuff so common nowadays. Gomer and Muriel Ackerman are a retro couple in the mid-21st Century who search for old-fashioned values in a twentieth-century settlement, but do not get what they bargained for. And Muriel’s grandniece Beatriz discovers extraterrestrials in another solar system who must be stingy with words in order to survive. If you are a curiosity seeker yourself, you can meet the kindred spirits within this collection of interrelated stories on Amazon. Book: Encountering the Edge: What People Told Me Before They Died, published by Pen-L Publishing April 24th, 2014. Free of religious agendas and pat answers, these are true quirky stories about my hospice patients and what they most cared about and believed in. You can get the book on Amazon. Ordained in 1992, I am among the first 200 female rabbis worldwide.In 2007 I became a board certified chaplain and served hospices for 11 years. Currently I am the Chief Marketing Officer at my husband's company, True Contrarian Investments. Endorsed by a reporter for The Huffington Post, you can see stories and essays on my blog offbeatcompassion.com. that are imbued with compassion as saffron suffuses rice with fragrance and color.