Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

As many of you know, I'm the advocate and medical guardian for an adult with autism. I've been helping to take care of him, and stan...

I was disappointed, but not surprised, to hear that Sarah Inama has decided to resign from her job as a sixth grade teacher in the West Ada ...

I was talking to an old friend of mine from the music industry the other day. We've kept in touch over the years, ever since the days wh...

Not a lot of folks read my blog post from 2 weeks ago, but those who did know I was defending the value of a college education. Maybe that...

I started college at Northeastern University in Boston in 1964. I was the first girl in my family to ever attend, and I wanted to do well. U...

I guess you could call me a "life-long learner": even though I have two master's degrees and a PhD, I always enjoy learning ne...

I was thinking about Twitter earlier tonight. I know, we're all supposed to call it X, but it will always be Twitter to me (I usually wr...