Karen Kaplan

I was in the ER because G-d wanted me there, and I was sick for a good reason, even if I didn’t understand that reason.

We believe we're all living completely separate lives, but that's as much of an illusion as believing a blood cell isn't part of, and dependent on, the body in which it lives.

Does the mitzvah count if you scrupulously perform the physical details but without feeling?

In this week's portion, Moses is not mentioned. This teaches us that a person’s name is not one’s essential identity.

Not every hit is a homer, but every hit counts.

I was a firecracker baby, as American as apple pie and baseball.

Humans can only see so far, but if we had the ability to view everything through G‑d’s eyes, we’d see the “sunshine,” the goodness, in all He created.

I’ve been saying these words for so many years that they are engraved in my mind. Impossible to remove, impossible to change.

More important than wondering “What if?” about the past is asking, “What now?

I entered the showroom, and as luck would have it, the first car I saw had everything I wanted.