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...
by Heidi Webb | Dec 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
Recently my son introduced me to the serious and comedic work of Trevor Noah. In particular, he suggested I read a passage from Trevor’s autobiography, Born A Crime, in which Noah describes his experience as a bi-racial child growing up in South Africa while...
by Heidi Webb | Nov 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
A House Divided November 9th, 2016 Living in a small town, some might say “a village”, I gathered with friends and family on election eve to await the results of the most contentious and divisive election I’ve ever known. Amidst the “dark and stormy” drinks, the pizza...
by Heidi Webb | Oct 25, 2016 | Uncategorized
Recently during the Jewish High Holiday services, a time of reflection and renewal, I had the pleasure of hearing Rabbi Darby Leigh speak. Rabbi Darby was born profoundly deaf, and he’s fond of saying, “I may be deaf but I listen really well”. And indeed he...
by Heidi Webb | Aug 16, 2016 | Uncategorized
What does a well-set table have to do with “complex” and “sticky” marriages? What in fact are complex and sticky marriages, and… for that matter what counts as a “well-set table”? In Oneida- From Free Love Utopia to The Well-Set Table, Ellen Wayland-Smith takes a deep...
by Heidi Webb | Jun 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
Politics between nations has always made more sense to me when I turn global situations into personal relationships- for instance when newsprint says “Canada”, I read it as “my niece in Ontario”, and when an article says “Israel”, I see it as “my cousin in Tel Aviv”....
by Heidi Webb | Jun 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet” In those immortalized words of Shakespeare Juliet insisted that her love for Romeo bested their surnames, and the fact that their families had a long and storied warring history....
