Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

When I heard the news that the Chaplain of the House of Representatives, Father Patrick Conroy, had been asked to resign by the Republican S...

As some of you already know, in November of 2014, I was diagnosed with cancer.  It wasn't entirely a surprise; most of the women on my l...

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 ...