Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

So, as I write this, I am now officially without a job. I haven't been without a job since I was a teenager, and frankly, I don't li...

I still fondly recall the day thirteen years ago this month when I got my PhD, at age 64. (Some folks had said I'd never do it, that I w...

A friend of mine who watches the evening news asked me how I felt about the growing number of angry and chaotic campus demonstrations. I tol...

It often amazes me that in early May, it will be 50 years since Bob Roper sent me that album on Moon Records by three guys from Toronto. Th...

I haven't blogged much recently, since, as many of you know, I've been recovering from pneumonia, and it has been taking a while for...

As many of you know, I've been sick with pneumonia. I don't recommend it, and I'm not having fun with it. I can't wait to st...

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...