Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

Let me start by saying I'm glad that more and more people are getting vaccinated against COVID. My husband just got his appointment, and...

As many of you know, Valentine's Day was my birthday;  I turned 74. Given my family history, with so many of the women on my mother'...

I've always been fascinated by the history of words; from the time I was a kid, I always wondered where a word came from, how its meanin...

My maternal grandfather came to America in 1910. He was from Lithuania, and by most accounts, things were not very good for the Jews there. ...

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 ...