Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

I've never liked the word "disability." I understand that whoever came up with it probably meant well, but it gives the impres...

Early on Saturday afternoon, we heard the news that an angry man had burst into a synagogue not far from Fort Worth, Texas, and he was holdi...

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...