I’ve been playing a lot of disc golf this summer and while the courses are usually wooded and scenic, many are totally trashed with garbage.  A large share of the mess is plastic and it chafes me bad.  I can use the distraction of the garbage as an excuse as to why my long drives [...]

Can’t seem to get off the soul-search train these days and I find I am still ruminating on why I do what I do.  I’ve always loved to use my hands and make things no matter the material but I rarely make the same thing twice.   Variations on a theme but never a duplicate.  Last night  I woke [...]

I am a specialist.  I do several limited edition collections a year but my primary passion and main focus is designing custom jewelry with custom faceted gemstones. I do four Gemstone Roundtables each year   There are times I wonder if I should broaden my scope and start to carry things that other fine jewelers fill [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot  lately about what makes me keep doing the work that I do.  I know, that you know, that I am passionate about the sustainability of gemstone mining and the ethics of the jewelry industry because we talk about it all the time together.   To share something with a like-minded person….that is F U N!

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