Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

I started college at Northeastern University in Boston in 1964. I was the first girl in my family to ever attend, and I wanted to do well. U...

I guess you could call me a "life-long learner": even though I have two master's degrees and a PhD, I always enjoy learning ne...

I was thinking about Twitter earlier tonight. I know, we're all supposed to call it X, but it will always be Twitter to me (I usually wr...

As many of you know, Valentine's Day was my birthday. I turned 78, and to my surprise, more than 1,100 folks reached out to me on socia...

February is Black History Month. We've been observing a celebration of Black History for nearly 100 years: ever since early February 192...

As a professor, I can't count the number of times that students of mine found a quote online and inserted it into their papers. Often, i...

In the early 1920s, when radio was new, a local bandleader named Jimmy Gallagher gained a large following. At the end of each radio show, af...