Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

Thomas Neal Cartmell died yesterday, after a long battle with cancer, at age 72. If you're a fan of classic rock, you know him by his pe...

As many of you know, I'm a cancer survivor. In fact, assuming I'm still here on the 17th of December, it will be six years since I h...

I just read a newspaper article that really irritated me. It was about a social studies teacher who was familiarizing his students with how ...

Periodically, Rush fans reach out to me on social media, and I always try to respond. Some of them seem to only want to thank me, or to expr...

I don't know about you, but lately, I find myself lying awake some nights, just worrying about what's going to happen. I know it...

I was thinking about Bucky Pizzarelli the other day. In fact, I gave him a shout-out when I was a guest on WEEU radio's "Talk It Ou...

A few random thoughts about the past few days, which, to say the least, have been strange.  For the first time in my adult life, I couldn...