The world is on fire. As my daughter said, the plagues are upon us: Australia burned; we have the covid-19 plague; the 17 year locusts ar...

A few weeks ago my sweet father-in-law moved into memory care. In the process of going through the few things he still had my husband fou...

Sometimes, the inspiration for a shape comes from the bottom of a bucket. Literally. I’ve been doing a bit of work on discovering the ph...

In the past few weeks I’ve been to a wedding and a funeral, watching someone I’ve know since he was a boy join his life with his beloved....

The inspiration for pieces of jewelry sometimes comes to me from my day job as an architect. Last month I met my work partner, Everett F...

What a year this has been! I decided at the end of 2017 not to travel for jewelry shows, after having an expensive and downright awful ...

Sometimes the image on paper is as striking as the reality on the ground. In this case, it's the shape of the Rio Grande/Bravo and the s...

Some will argue that every act is political, and the purchase of jewelry certainly is. There are endless articles about the true value o...

The story of the yad is a simple one. My synagogue commissioned a new Torah, and I volunteered to make a yad, or pointer, for the new sc...

This past weekend I was in DC for a fine craft show, and without going into too many details, I found myself willingly slowing down, stay...

When you live in a drought prone area, rain is a blessing. When you have a tent outside for an art fair and it's raining, well, you wish...

I have worked as an architect for more than 25 years, and my work partner is a landscape architect (and a regular architect too), so I've...

Jewelry and Travel I've been home for the past two weeks or so and it feels great. For the first time I went to retail fine craft shows ...

More Casting About Since I rented a jewelry studio this summer, I've spent a few days every week casting jewelry, getting ready for two b...