by Heidi Webb | Sep 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
I recently hiked through Iceland’s Þingvellir (Thingvellir) National Park where amidst the tectonic plates of the rift valley, the exquisite waterfalls and massive lava landscape rich in austerity, I discovered the site of the Icelandic people’s “law rock”, dating...
by Heidi Webb | Jul 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
A few weeks ago my brother and I were having a conversation about the meaning of life when I recalled a book I’d read back in college, and recommended it to him. About a week later I asked him if he’d read it and he told me he’d read it the day after I told him...
by Heidi Webb | Jun 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
When our kids were small, we had a Friday night dinner ritual that included saying our weekly “thankfuls” (at about eight years old my son also began to include his “wishfuls”:-). In any event, my thinking was that by creating a habit of self-reflection our kids would...
by Heidi Webb | Apr 25, 2019 | 2019, Uncategorized
As we approached the Brooklyn Bridge we encountered a huge billboard… sort of warning and welcome wrapped into one. It’s not the kind of sign you’d see in Wyoming, or even in Boston. But then again the volume of people in New York is truly mind and body boggling, and...
by Heidi Webb | Apr 23, 2019 | 2019, Uncategorized
Late last month while visiting my son in California we toured The Winchester Mystery House. Its’ one hundred and sixty rooms were built by carpenters pounding hammers twenty-four hours a day for thirty-eight years. Which leads to the obvious questions: Why? What would...
by Heidi Webb | Feb 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
Ever since I was a young girl one of my favorite places to visit has been the impressionist gallery at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. I was always particularly mesmerized by Monet’s Water Lilies series, and more than once I can remember sitting before one of his...
