Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

I was still a teenager when the original "Star Trek" made its debut in 1966. It was on NBC, and although I watched some of the epi...

When I was a kid, I dreamed of owning my own radio station. I had no idea what it cost to buy one, but it seemed like the best of all possib...

I have a friend who is firmly convinced that I'm going to burn in hell because I'm Jewish and haven't accepted Christianity. It...

I remember reading online once that "just about anyone can get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; if you've got the money, you c...

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...