by Heidi Webb | Feb 12, 2026 | 2026
Valentine’s Day often centers one kind of love — romantic love — as if it’s the measure of all the rest. But the Ancient Greeks understood something we sometimes forget: love takes many forms. In All Kinds of Love, a call back to a post I first wrote in 2015, I...
by Heidi Webb | Feb 4, 2026 | 2026
Of course, Bruce Springsteen found the words and wrote the anthem for these times. And the searing pain of his musical indictment is gut wrenching. In October of 2015, I wrote The Paradox of Power after I visited the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. There, I had...
by Palleyad | Jan 9, 2026 | 2026
Photo: Rembrandt’s Night Watch Arriving at the Schiphol airport in Amsterdam we saw a sign: Welcome to the Netherlands. We have more bicycles than people. Watch out when you hear ‘tring, tring’. Aside from possible accidents, what might the impact of all...
by Heidi Webb | Jan 8, 2026 | 2026
Photo: Yorkshire Sculpture Park- Barbara Hepworth’s The Family of Man If you are wondering why our journeying took us to Dublin, Berlin, Leeds in the UK, and Amsterdam, let me explain the context. When we received an invitation to my grand-nephew’s bar...
by Heidi Webb | Jan 7, 2026 | 2026
Photo: Eastside Galleries Arriving at the airport in Berlin, we immediately spotted a kiosk where we could purchase multi-day tickets to Berlin’s transportation system – its trains, subways, and buses. If you know the board game, Ticket to Ride, it’s like that,...
by Heidi Webb | Jan 6, 2026 | 2026
Being a native Bostonian, Dublin and surrounding towns were the ancestral homes of many of my peers growing up. So I have some familiarity of Irish culture, and curiosity about the humor, the poetry, the wit, the writing, and traditional Irish music. We spent...
by Heidi Webb | Jan 5, 2026 | 2026
Recently my husband and I traveled to Dublin, Berlin, the UK, and Amsterdam. He dubbed the trip as “appetizer, salad, entrée, and dessert”. While in Amsterdam, the dessert part of our trip,...
by Heidi Webb | Dec 22, 2025 | 2025
Recently, my son gave me Dr. Jane Goodall’s Book of Hope, subtitled “A Survival Guide for Trying Times.” During this spate of recent darkness – the murders at Brown University, Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, Rob and Michele Singer Reiner – I needed Dr....
by Heidi Webb | Oct 17, 2025 | 2025
When my younger daughter texted me from New York saying she couldn’t talk because she was about to hop onto a train to go see Taylor Swift’s newly released “Life of a Showgirl,” my mind raced back a number of decades to the time when my closest, oldest friend and I...
by Heidi Webb | Jul 15, 2025 | 2025
above, I’ve been in a bind. Being in a bind, isn’t a comfortable place. My bind wasn’t because of smaller people having tied me down — rather it was because I couldn’t grab hold of an idea worthy of tying down. Or, perhaps, more precisely, because I had a number...
