Karen Bookman Kaplan | Source | Hospice Chaplain at Center for Hope Hospice

As one of the first two hundred female rabbis in the world, I specialized in spiritual care for hospice patients and their families of all religions or none. During the years of my career, which spanned 2005 through 2015, my hospice career memoir, Encountering The Edge: What People Told Me Before They Died (Pen-L Publishing) was published in 2014. I began my blog Offbeatcompassion.com in 2013 and it includes such issues as unacknowledged grief, COVID-19 sermons, why evil exists (that's a popular post!), and fear of death. Currently I edit my husband's newsletter for his business True Contrarian Investments and keep his clients involved.