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....
by Heidi Webb | May 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
What door do I walk through, and why do I choose it? Those were the questions examined at an ArtBoston exhibit that I, and many others walked through. Doors opened and shut as we went, and a computer kept track of the choices made, tallying them up, and...
by Heidi Webb | Feb 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
Probably the best statistical graphic ever drawn, this map by Charles Joseph Minard portrays the losses suffered by Napoleon’s army in the Russian campaign of 1812. Beginning at the Polish-Russian border, the thick band shows the size of the army at each...
by Heidi Webb | Jan 6, 2016 | Uncategorized
Oh, Ouch, ouch, ouch! My leg…. Help! My ski. Please get it off!. Oh, Owwww. Damn. That really hurt. Oh, great. Thank you. That’s better. Can you get the other ski off? That really hurt. Where does it hurt? I’m not sure. My knee but I’m not sure where. It didn’t pop....
by Heidi Webb | Dec 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
For as long as I can remember, the power of language has fascinated me: which words we choose to express our thoughts, the tone we use when speaking, and–once they’re out–the impact they have on others. When a couple that had once been in love is no...
by Heidi Webb | Oct 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
“The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.” -Code of Hammurabi, 1772 B.C. Last weekend, I visited the Holocaust Museum in D.C. for the first time. I was in town for the International Association of...
by Heidi Webb | Aug 4, 2015 | Law and Society
One day almost a hundred years ago, when my Mom was in school as a little girl, about six years old as I recall the story, she couldn’t resist the temptation of sliding down the banister from the 2nd floor to the 1st. Just as she was about to...
by Heidi Webb | Jul 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
The rainbows we’ve recently been seeing in celebration of the SCOTUS decision making marriages we formally called “same-sex”, now just marriages, got me to thinking about the enormity of change family law has undergone during the past fifty or so years. It seems to me...
