Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

Every now and then, the lyrics of a song just resonate with me.  Sometimes, they remind me of an event that took place in my past:  don'...

A conservative friend of mine was surprised the other day by something I said to him:  we were talking about the upcoming holidays (Passover...

I know something now about Rush (the rock band, not the talk show host) that I did not know before. I know the date when I received that fir...

Whenever a Republican becomes president and has to propose a budget, I fully expect he will want to allocate more money for defense (whether...

One of my favorite quotes about communication comes from Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass."  Humpty Dumpty is debati...

I was born on a Friday morning, Valentine's Day (February 14), 1947.  Obviously, I don't remember any of it, but from what I've ...

To say the least, it's been an exciting (some would say bizarre) eleven days since Donald Trump took office.  We've seen him engage ...