Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

I was thinking about Lillian D. Rock today. In fact, over the past few weeks, I've thought about her a lot. You probably don't know ...

Last night, I was looking through some of my Rush-related memorabilia, and I found a few items from October 2012. That may not seem like suc...

Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, comes late this year: it usually comes in September, but this year, it's in October-- it begins at s...

I don't talk much about either of my grandfathers; they both died many years ago. But they were part of a very familiar story. My matern...

Twenty-five years ago, I was researching a book about the changing roles of women in society, and trying to find out if society's attitu...

It's National Radio Day, a day to celebrate a mass medium that is still important to many of us. I understand that in our internet and T...

A couple of weeks ago, a former student of mine got in touch. I hadn't heard from him in about 20 years, but evidently something caused ...