Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

I made the front page of my local newspaper a month ago, but it wasn't for any great accomplishment of mine; it was because I live in a ...

This past Thursday, I got my vaccine shot. I felt incredibly lucky-- to get on the schedule at all (many folks are still waiting) and then t...

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...