Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

As many of you know, Valentine's Day was my birthday-- #77. And imagine my surprise to find that about 900 folks reached out to wish me...

I normally blog a couple of times a month, and since this one is coming out at the beginning of February, the next one will be right after m...

It should come as no surprise to those who read my blogs that my politics tend to lean center-left. On some issues, I'm more center-righ...

Because I used to be a deejay, I sometimes name my blog posts after song titles, or after lyrics that I like. If you're a Rush fan, you ...

I remember it as if it was almost yesterday. It was the last week in November 2014 when I got the phone call from the specialist. And he tol...

I was thinking about Hanukkah a lot this week, and that's not something I usually do. Don't get me wrong: it's a perfectly nice ...

I had known for a while that Geddy Lee was writing another book, and unlike the last one, this was more of an autobiography than a tribute t...