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...
by Heidi Webb | Jun 9, 2015 | The Consilium Process
May is replete with many Milestones. Cotillions and Commencements collide. Marriages and for many, divorces. For some, it’s Just the Beginning. For others, it’s a New Beginning. Amongst the myriad graduation hats and tassels at my daughter’s college Commencement were...
