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...
by Heidi Webb | Feb 13, 2024 | 2024
I have a grandnephew turning three years old today. Being born on Valentine’s Day seems special, but the “holiday-ness” of his birthday seems even more striking knowing that his father, my nephew Joey, is a “Leap Year baby”. As I thought about this, I...
by Heidi Webb | Dec 4, 2023 | 2023
About a month ago, my youngest daughter asked me if I’d like to go away with her for a couple of days after Thanksgiving. Having had some challenging conversations and disagreements during the past few months, we both decided it would be a good opportunity to go...
by Heidi Webb | Nov 14, 2023 | 2023
Wow. It’s been a minute. Of imagining. Of creating. Of innovating. And momentum is building. And fundamentally changing perspectives and practices around divorce and family law. Since our first Consilium Institute training a little more than a year ago, we have had...
