by Author-Rochelle Kaplan | Dec 11, 2024 | Author Rochelle Kaplan, Gratitude, Personal Stories
For twenty-four years, I dreamed of visiting Borneo. I even had it listed on my Bucket List. While I ticked off other items on my list during that time—some as remote and hard to get to as Borneo—I still put it off thinking it was too way off the beaten track and...
by Author-Rochelle Kaplan | Nov 14, 2024 | Gratitude, Personal Stories
Money aside, it takes a lot of effort, energy and time to travel the world. I should know as I just returned from visiting my 55th and 56th country: Singapore and Malaysia. If I had to rank those factors in order of importance, I’d be tempted to place energy right...
by Author-Rochelle Kaplan | Oct 8, 2024 | Author Rochelle Kaplan, Personal Stories
Eleven years ago, to mark a milestone birthday, I booked a solo overseas trip to check off two items on my bucket list: a Kenyan safari guided by the Maasai Mara and a mountain gorilla trek in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest of Uganda. While I had previously been...
by Author-Rochelle Kaplan | Sep 12, 2024 | Personal Stories
Two months ago, a friend of mine was laid off after 20 years of employment at a company with a national presence. Not only did he perform his job well, but he was the top sales producer in the country. To say he was shocked would be the understatement of the century...
by Author-Rochelle Kaplan | Jun 12, 2024 | Author Rochelle Kaplan, Meditation for the Mind, Personal Stories
Recently, a hypothetical question was posed to women on social media: Would you rather be alone in the woods with a man or a bear? Although there was no unanimous answer, most of the women on sites like TikTok, Instagram and X responded they’d prefer to be alone with...
by Author-Rochelle Kaplan | May 17, 2024 | Author Rochelle Kaplan, Personal Stories
Lots of things come to mind when I think of the month of May. Everything from May Day to Cinco de Mayo to Mother’s Day to Memorial Day. Yet, for the past 17 years, the first thing that comes to mind is my son’s birthday, May 8. My second thought is that he made me a...
