Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

I don't know how many of you recall a book from 1982 by Benjamin Hoff called The Tao of Pooh . It was a best-seller, and in it, the auth...

On Saturday morning, Rep. Melissa Hortman, an influential Democratic state legislator from Minneapolis, was shot dead in her home, along wit...

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...