Debra-Lynn B. Hook

2 weeks ago | texarkanagazette.com | Debra-Lynn B. Hook

My mother grew up in a beset post-Depression family that saddled her with too many responsibilities, including, from age 9, tending her three siblings while her mother worked nights as a nurse and slept days. Among her siblings was Aunt Cathy. Aunt Cathy was always considered "off" by my hardened grandmother, though I always wondered if she was simply a maligned artist.

3 weeks ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Debra-Lynn B. Hook

My mother grew up in a beset post-Depression family that saddled her with too many responsibilities, including, from age 9, tending her three siblings while her mother worked nights as a nurse and slept days. Among her siblings was Aunt Cathy.

3 weeks ago | sacbee.com | Debra-Lynn B. Hook

My mother grew up in a beset post-Depression family that saddled her with too many responsibilities, including, from age 9, tending her three siblings while her mother worked nights as a nurse and slept days. Among her siblings was Aunt Cathy. Aunt Cathy was always considered "off" by my hardened grandmother, though I always wondered if she was simply a maligned artist.

2 months ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Debra-Lynn B. Hook

By Debra-Lynn B. Hook, Tribune News Service I attend a spirituality group for an hour every week that holds loving kindness as its anchor. During the hour, we read the poetry of such luminaries as Mary Oliver and John O'Donohue. We meditate, and we talk about the ways we find to extend loving kindness to ourselves and others.

2 months ago | miamiherald.com | Debra-Lynn B. Hook

I attend a spirituality group for an hour every week that holds loving kindness as its anchor. During the hour, we read the poetry of such luminaries as Mary Oliver and John O'Donohue. We meditate, and we talk about the ways we find to extend loving kindness to ourselves and others. The dozen or so gentle-spirited members of this group also talk about the difficulties of staying with love these days when so much of what we are seeing resonates hate.