Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

This is my fifth anniversary as a blogger; I tend to post on a bi-weekly basis, and my readership varies-- typically, it's about 100-150...

The first time I met Neil Peart, it was mid-1974. I was working at WMMS in Cleveland, where I had helped to launch the band's career in ...

So, here we are at the end of the decade, and if I had to describe it, words like "surprising" and "shocking," as well a...

If I'm still here on Tuesday the 17th (and I sincerely hope I am), it will officially be five years since I had my cancer surgery. I am ...

I grew up in an ethnic neighborhood-- Dorchester, MA, back when it was predominantly Jewish. There was also another ethnic neighborhood in D...

Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward is coming to Boston in a couple of days to do several speaking engagements, and I'll have a chance...

On any day in Washington DC, you can find politicians from both sides of the aisle criticizing their political opponents. It's almost li...