by Heidi Webb | Nov 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou Like many things in life, how they manifest matters as much as that they manifest. This is never truer than...
by Heidi Webb | Oct 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
Like many other women who heard Dr. Ford’s testimony before the U.S. Senate committee, I recalled the testimony of Atty. Anita Hill from 27 years ago, and also heard it in concert with my own experiences. As she testified, I recalled my own sexual assault as a...
by Heidi Webb | Sep 25, 2018 | Uncategorized
Recently I read Jennifer Finney Boylan’s book Stuck In The Middle With You, which recounts her parenting as a father, then while in transition, and finally after her transition, as a mother. The fluidity of gender, and the social constructs society assigns to men and...
by Heidi Webb | Aug 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
Personally and from clients, friends, and colleagues, I feel and see and hear how the divisiveness of our current political climate is eroding and impacting relationships. Therefore, now more than ever, it is incumbent upon us to embrace the power of civility and...
by Heidi Webb | Jul 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
Consilium’s growth has been the result of many minds and hearts working together to build a better system, and its evolution reminds me of the 12th century theologian and author John of Salisbury’s phrasing in his 1159 treatise on logic, Metalogicon, when he wrote:...
by Heidi Webb | Apr 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
Earlier this month I received a succinct blog post from my esteemed colleague, Bill Levine, in which he described a recent Court decision – Shea v. Cameron – saying, “He lied about loving her. They married. He cheated. She filed for divorce. She withdrew...
by Heidi Webb | Mar 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
Quite some time ago when my son was bussing tables at Bertucci’s he came across a note written on a napkin, and thinking I might find it interesting he gave it to me to read. I did in fact find it interesting and set it aside imagining that one-day I might want to...
by Heidi Webb | Jan 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
Picking up on my previous blog post where I wrote about my travels in Spain and the elephant proverb relative to misunderstandings about parts and wholes, this post will explore the political and emotional factors interwoven into the Catalan secession movement....
by Heidi Webb | Nov 29, 2017 | Uncategorized
In my experience leaving home gives perspective in a way that staying home never can. Having recently returned from traveling in Spain, I was struck by the difference between the news of violence I’d been absorbing at home about the actions of Catalans to secede from...
by Heidi Webb | Sep 29, 2017 | Uncategorized
It gives me great pleasure that my son agreed to gift me a guest blog. Adam’s been my writing mentor, and gently broke me of my legalistic writing tendencies to hopefully become that of a more natural storyteller. Prior to Adam’s departure for the West Coast to...
