Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

I became a baseball fan when I was about 11 or 12 years old. To this day, I don't know why: my father wasn't a big fan, and I had no...

As many of you know, I turned 75 on Valentine's Day. When I was a kid, folks who were 75 were often called "elderly." There we...

I grew up with AM radio, back when it still played music. Every city had at least one great top-40 station, and many of those stations had v...

Once a month, I have the privilege of being part of a Rush-themed webcast. Each member of the panel takes a song from this month's Rush ...

April 1 is not just April Fools Day this year. It's also a day that many historians (including me) have been awaiting for a very long ti...

Every night, as soon as the newest Wordle puzzle becomes available, I pause whatever I'm doing to see if I can solve it. For those who a...

It was William Shakespeare's character Malvolio, in Act III of the play "Twelfth Night," who said, "Some are born great.....