On the Yellow Brick Road
My Search for Home and Hope for the Child with Autism
by Karen Kaplan
Published: October 5, 2017
ASIN: B0767QFCGR
142 pages
We are all on some type of search to find home, a place we feel supports our uniqueness, our curiosities, our passions; acknowledges our contributions; helps us feel connected; and, most of all, offers us safety, love and a sense of well-being.
This book is about my search to find my own home through my dedication to children with autism, to give hope to the families who love and support them, and the professionals who mentor and inspire their growth.
The Yellow Brick Road is my metaphor for the journey each of us takes, including the child with autism, and his or her family, with all its tests, adventures, ordeals, rewards, and transformations.
I hope my story provides insight, understanding, helpful ideas, and strategies, and most importantly, a way to see possibilities and capabilities instead of disabilities.
Other Books by Karen
Typewriting to Heaven...and Back: Conversations with my dad on death, afterlife and living
Published October 15, 2020
What questions do you wish you had asked your mother, father, grandparent or special friend while they were still alive? Typewriting to Heaven and Back is a memoir by Karen Kaplan, whose old Royal Typewriter becomes the catalyst for some heartfelt conversations with her father, who passed away ten years previously. Typewriting to Heaven...and Back was my way of healing from the loss of my dad. Perhaps each of us is secretly seeking to understand death and also heal our hearts. I found that I could accomplish this through typing conversations with my dad. W riting to a loved one who has passed, letting that person know how you were feeling or simply how your day went could fill the loss and ease the grief.
A few reviews
This book is like Karen getting down in your heart and telling exactly how you feel about a loved one who has gone on. I read this book at a time when a loved one passed on a week ago. Karen, you really helped with the healing process. This book is an easy read and makes you realize how important your family is, as if you did know already. Thank you, Karen for sharing your heart!
Do yourself a favor and read this book!!
– Herbert I.
Typewriting to Heaven and Back.... is a deeply creative, sensitive and heartfelt book. Karen Kaplan's ability to listen and inquire into the deeper questions between father and daughter is accomplished with gentle intimacy and curious inquiry. Her book is a testimony to the importance of relationships, especially between fathers and daughters. Don't miss this one!
– J. Northern
Remaining connected with loved ones long departed. Remembering to connect with those still with us.
These are the actions prompted by this inspiring little book. How lucky the author was to have such a strong and loving relationship with her father, one so deep that she was able to channel his wisdom and have it provide answers to the big questions she poses in the present. A lovely, heartfelt tribute to the special relationship between a daughter and father.
– Amazon Customer