Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

I was working on my 2021 retrospective blog post this afternoon when I got the news that Betty White had died. She was nearly 100-- and so h...

I was on a Rush Deep Dive webcast several days ago, and the song I was asked to analyze, from the "Hold Your Fire" album, was ...

Well, evidently Jill Biden is a failure, at least according to about 50% of the folks online: her Christmas decorations are boring and ordin...

As some of you know, I used to be a chaplain. I was teaching media courses at Emerson College in Boston at the time, and my job was to be a ...

When I tell my students I'm 74, they're often surprised-- fortunately, I'm still reasonably young-looking, but that's not wh...

The other day, I got some folks on social media upset with me when I said that I never understood the popularity of Kim Kardashian and Paris...

Several days ago, I saw an article about country singer Jason Aldean, his wife, and their two kids (ages two and three).  I admit I'm no...