Power of Presence

Read author Deborah Yonick’s article in  Lapidary Journal (July/August 2020), about jewelry artists telling the human experience of COVID.  “Gifted at telling compelling stories about the gems she works with and the jewelry she creates, custom jewelry artist...

“Ice, Ice, Baby”

Hanging on a rope 30 feet down a glacial crevasse, I waited as the team set up ropes to pull me out. Four days spent learning the ropes of expedition mountaineering on Mt. Rainier included lessons on extricating your partner from a crevasse. Glacial ice isn’t like the...

Long Distance Legacy

My friend Lisa was in from Amsterdam with bags of gems and jewels she had collected over years of travel.  Lisa’s jewel stash was large and varied, the only common denominator amongst the pieces was her good eye and sense of the possible. Would it be possible to...

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