by Heidi Webb | Sep 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
The older I get, the younger seventy-five years old seems. So it was sobering this past week to note the deaths of two seventy-five years olds, NPR commentator Cokie Roberts and The Cars lead singer, Ric Ocasek, both of whom I consider to be cultural icons, albeit in...
by Heidi Webb | Sep 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
I recently hiked through Iceland’s Þingvellir (Thingvellir) National Park where amidst the tectonic plates of the rift valley, the exquisite waterfalls and massive lava landscape rich in austerity, I discovered the site of the Icelandic people’s “law rock”, dating...
by Heidi Webb | Jul 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
A few weeks ago my brother and I were having a conversation about the meaning of life when I recalled a book I’d read back in college, and recommended it to him. About a week later I asked him if he’d read it and he told me he’d read it the day after I told him...
by Heidi Webb | Jun 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
When our kids were small, we had a Friday night dinner ritual that included saying our weekly “thankfuls” (at about eight years old my son also began to include his “wishfuls”:-). In any event, my thinking was that by creating a habit of self-reflection our kids would...
by Heidi Webb | Apr 25, 2019 | 2019, Uncategorized
As we approached the Brooklyn Bridge we encountered a huge billboard… sort of warning and welcome wrapped into one. It’s not the kind of sign you’d see in Wyoming, or even in Boston. But then again the volume of people in New York is truly mind and body boggling, and...
