by Heidi Webb | Apr 14, 2025 | 2025
Friends recently invited us to the showing of a film called Raising Bar. Bar is the son of much loved friends of theirs. He is also a man with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). Many years ago, Bar’s parents had the foresight to recognize that...
by Heidi Webb | Feb 17, 2025 | 2025
Events and scents, sights and sounds can, in a nanosecond, transport us back in time. Sometimes we are brought to a beautiful place or time; other times we are abruptly carried back to sad and painful memories. Sometimes both happen at the same time. Such was...
by Heidi Webb | Jan 24, 2025 | 2025
Recently, while having a conversation about metacognition with Matt Hampton, founder of Envoy Design, we got to talking about the many kinds of lenses that inform our world views. In addition to his usual work (which isn’t really that usual), Matt is co-host of...
by Heidi Webb | Dec 23, 2024 | 2024
Photo of my Mom, Gertrude M. Webb, in Iceland – circa 2004 Long before America Ferrara made her iconic 2023 Barbie speech about women’s inability to ever “get it right”, the 1991 book, “Be An Outrageous Older Woman”, by Ruth Harriet Jacobs, a gerontologist at...
by Heidi Webb | Nov 11, 2024 | 2024
Recently at a photography exhibit, I was gob smacked by Los Angeles photographer Corinne Cobabe’s portfolio Perfect is Not a Word. Her accompanying artist’s statement was “Nice big home. Nice cars. Nice things. Big family. Very religious. High standards. Arguments....
by Heidi Webb | Aug 15, 2024 | 2024
Recently I had the opportunity to visit the inspiring Corning Museum of Glass. However, my visit coincided with a previous commitment that was made to be interviewed on Judy Heft’s podcast. So… I decided to arrive early at the museum and see if I could...
by Heidi Webb | Jul 15, 2024 | 2024
Photo by Tim Goedhart on Unsplash Note: This blog is an excerpt from Judge’s Field’s upcoming book:Bold Judging: Creating Families Who Are Self-Governing After Divorce©Julie Field and The Consilium Institute. All rights reserved. Hon. Julie Kunce Field...
by Heidi Webb | Jun 17, 2024 | 2024
On a personal level, it’s the overwhelm. The sense that you are out of your depth. Airdropped into a land of chaos. With little to no direction about how to move forward. What a divorce process looks like depends upon who is looking. For someone at the...
by Heidi Webb | May 8, 2024 | 2024
I recently listened to Maggie Smith read her latest book, You Could Make This Place Beautiful. I was moved by the magnificence of her poetic voice as she unraveled the pain of her divorce and after-marriage, during which she candidly acknowledged “I don’t have...
by Heidi Webb | Mar 25, 2024 | 2024
Earlier this week I listened to Ezra Klein’s podcast interview of Marilynne Robinson, whom I’d never heard speak before. Initially, to my ear her voice sounded almost childlike, timid while also being sort of awestruck. The more I listened to her, the more I was drawn...
