by Heidi Webb | Mar 3, 2022 | 2022
Recently I’ve read two impactful books, Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks, and Atul Gawande’sBeing Mortal. I’m not sure if their profundity has struck me more deeply in the light of the pandemic and its impact on my perspective of time, my age and my...
by Heidi Webb | Jan 13, 2022 | 2022
January is a complicated month for me, but it wasn’t always so. As a child it was a month of celebrating, since one of my brothers and I both have January birthdays. Growing up on the Charles River meant that many years included birthday celebrations of skating and...
by Heidi Webb | Dec 27, 2021 | 2021
I woke up this morning thinking about gratitude. I suppose it’s “that time of year” when we all hope to pause and appreciate the bounty of our efforts… but amidst the isolation and emotionally taxing challenges of the past couple of years, maintaining an...
by Heidi Webb | Nov 12, 2021 | 2021
In Plato’s Apology, written nearly 2500 years ago, he famously quoted Socrates as saying that “The unexamined life is not worth living”. Socrates’ words have resonated with me over the years, so much so that I recall using that quote as the opening...
by Heidi Webb | Nov 2, 2021 | 2021
a/k/a The Conservatorship of Britney Spears Is it only with 20:20 hindsight that through her songs and their titles Britney seemed to be screaming for help? Bright lights and lots of media attention shone on September’s precedent-setting ruling on the...
