by Heidi Webb | Dec 22, 2025 | 2025
Recently, my son gave me Dr. Jane Goodall’s Book of Hope, subtitled “A Survival Guide for Trying Times.” During this spate of recent darkness – the murders at Brown University, Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, Rob and Michele Singer Reiner – I needed Dr....
by Heidi Webb | Oct 17, 2025 | 2025
When my younger daughter texted me from New York saying she couldn’t talk because she was about to hop onto a train to go see Taylor Swift’s newly released “Life of a Showgirl,” my mind raced back a number of decades to the time when my closest, oldest friend and I...
by Heidi Webb | Jul 15, 2025 | 2025
above, I’ve been in a bind. Being in a bind, isn’t a comfortable place. My bind wasn’t because of smaller people having tied me down — rather it was because I couldn’t grab hold of an idea worthy of tying down. Or, perhaps, more precisely, because I had a number...
by Heidi Webb | Apr 14, 2025 | 2025
Friends recently invited us to the showing of a film called Raising Bar. Bar is the son of much loved friends of theirs. He is also a man with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). Many years ago, Bar’s parents had the foresight to recognize that...
by Heidi Webb | Feb 17, 2025 | 2025
Events and scents, sights and sounds can, in a nanosecond, transport us back in time. Sometimes we are brought to a beautiful place or time; other times we are abruptly carried back to sad and painful memories. Sometimes both happen at the same time. Such was...
by Heidi Webb | Jan 24, 2025 | 2025
Recently, while having a conversation about metacognition with Matt Hampton, founder of Envoy Design, we got to talking about the many kinds of lenses that inform our world views. In addition to his usual work (which isn’t really that usual), Matt is co-host of...
