by Heidi Webb | Jan 6, 2016 | Uncategorized
Oh, Ouch, ouch, ouch! My leg…. Help! My ski. Please get it off!. Oh, Owwww. Damn. That really hurt. Oh, great. Thank you. That’s better. Can you get the other ski off? That really hurt. Where does it hurt? I’m not sure. My knee but I’m not sure where. It didn’t pop....
by Heidi Webb | Dec 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
For as long as I can remember, the power of language has fascinated me: which words we choose to express our thoughts, the tone we use when speaking, and–once they’re out–the impact they have on others. When a couple that had once been in love is no...
by Heidi Webb | Oct 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
“The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.” -Code of Hammurabi, 1772 B.C. Last weekend, I visited the Holocaust Museum in D.C. for the first time. I was in town for the International Association of...
by Heidi Webb | Aug 4, 2015 | Law and Society
One day almost a hundred years ago, when my Mom was in school as a little girl, about six years old as I recall the story, she couldn’t resist the temptation of sliding down the banister from the 2nd floor to the 1st. Just as she was about to...
by Heidi Webb | Jul 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
The rainbows we’ve recently been seeing in celebration of the SCOTUS decision making marriages we formally called “same-sex”, now just marriages, got me to thinking about the enormity of change family law has undergone during the past fifty or so years. It seems to me...
