by Author-Rochelle Kaplan | Aug 14, 2025 | Author Rochelle Kaplan, Personal Stories, Positive Perspective
A clear sign of having wisdom is knowing how little control we humans have over most things in our lives. Take death as an example. No one has control of determining how long he or she will live or when he or she will die. As much as the health and beauty industries...
by Author-Rochelle Kaplan | Jul 9, 2025 | Author Rochelle Kaplan, Personal Stories
Last month I relayed my overall malaise, which was specifically tied to two unrelated, yet completely annoying experiences. My “new” dentist who used a sleight of hand to treat me and a candidate who blew her interview. This month, by contrast, I have been troubled by...
by Author-Rochelle Kaplan | Jun 11, 2025 | Author Rochelle Kaplan, Disciplined Decisions, Personal Stories
All last week I was feeling a bit out of sorts. I was cranky and snippy and taking it out on the wrong people. It wasn’t anything one person did to me, but a combination of two disparate events that took place last Monday. Ironically, both events happened at the...
by Author-Rochelle Kaplan | May 14, 2025 | Author Rochelle Kaplan, Gratitude, Meditation for the Mind, Personal Stories, Positive Perspective, Writing Inspiration
Twenty-plus years ago, after I’d self-published Guilty as Sin and before I started to pen the Persona Non Grata trilogy, I was talking to a casual friend at the gym, telling him about wanting to write another novel. Curious and intrigued by my avocation, he asked me...
by Author-Rochelle Kaplan | Apr 8, 2025 | Author Rochelle Kaplan, Personal Stories, Writing Inspiration
I’m never surprised where my writing inspiration comes from. And often it arises from the most unlikely places. Last month I received a resume from a candidate named Christina in response to a healthcare related ad I had posted on one of the popular job boards. The...
