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....
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....
