Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

There's a commercial for a nutritional drink called Boost in which a woman says, "Age is just a number. And mine's unlisted....

I've never actually been to Vinton, Iowa, but I feel as if I know something about the place-- in fact, back in the late 1990s, I wrote a...

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...