Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

I was talking to someone who reached out to me on social media (he had read something I wrote, and he didn't agree with it); we were hav...

I'm holding a rare artifact right now-- it's a fan letter, written in longhand, from late December 1935. It was sent by a man from N...

There's something I've never been able to figure out:  how did my last name get to be Halper?  I understand that it's a common l...

After seventeen innocent people, most of them high school students, were murdered in yet another mass shooting, I went on Twitter to remark ...

My birthday is coming up:  on Valentine's Day, I'll be 71.  Most of the time, I don't think much about my chronological age-- I ...

On Martin Luther King Day, President Trump played golf. It's something he often does; by some accounts, he's already been on a golf ...

I admit it:  I've never been a big fan of New Year's Eve.  For one thing, I'm not much of a party-goer, and I don't underst...