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...
by Heidi Webb | May 31, 2017 | Uncategorized
I recently attended a Celebration of the life of a remarkable neighbor. Realizing that her cancer might keep her from attending her 88th birthday, she’d planned a party which was to be a celebration either with her, or for her and in lieu of a funeral or...
by Heidi Webb | Apr 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
The current, wonderful Matisse exhibit at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts includes paintings, cutouts and sculptures of Henri Matisse, and juxtaposes them with many of the objects he loved, and which inspired his work. Two silver “chocolate pots”, one given...
by Heidi Webb | Mar 29, 2017 | Uncategorized
This past Friday evening our family was filled with gratitude and grief as we laid to rest our much loved Sophie, the English Springer Spaniel pup who worked her way into our hearts and gave us boundless unconditional love during the past 12 ½ years. Many of you knew...
by Heidi Webb | Feb 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
We are living in unsettling times, engaged as a country in a relationship where power and its balance is challenged daily. When crafting our Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson wrote that a government “deriv[es] its just power from the consent of...
