by Heidi Webb | Nov 29, 2017 | Uncategorized
In my experience leaving home gives perspective in a way that staying home never can. Having recently returned from traveling in Spain, I was struck by the difference between the news of violence I’d been absorbing at home about the actions of Catalans to secede from...
by Heidi Webb | Sep 29, 2017 | Uncategorized
It gives me great pleasure that my son agreed to gift me a guest blog. Adam’s been my writing mentor, and gently broke me of my legalistic writing tendencies to hopefully become that of a more natural storyteller. Prior to Adam’s departure for the West Coast to...
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...