Saturday January 8, 2022, that’s when I started getting back to me. I was taking my daughter to gymnastics, a routine that usually involves lots of fussing and rushing to get there on time. My husband and two of my kids had been sick the entire week and I was feeling a bit overwhelmed. My best friend of the past 20 years called while I was…
This was a fun week for jewelry auctions and the highlight for me was a series of diamonds offered for sale during Christie’s Magnificent Jewels New York Auction. Lots 62-68 were all cut from the same 552.74 carat rough; the largest gem quality diamond ever found in North America. The stone was unearthed in 2018 at the Diavik mine in Canada. A mine that…
Friday it was fall in Houston, then Saturday it was back up to 90 degrees! Luckily I had already planned a Wishful Weekend getaway to the Catskills where the daytime high will be in the mid-60’s and at night the temperature should drop about 20 degrees. I have always thought that cold weather clothes were cuter, so this gives me the opportunity to dust off colorful…
I love diamonds. If I’m honest, they’re my favorite gemstone. For me, nothing sparkles quite like a diamond. As a gemologist, of course I appreciate many gemstone varieties and I am fascinated by the complex chemistries of many gem species. But the simple way that one atom, Carbon, combines in a simple cubic structure to make the hardest gemstone on earth; one that breathes fire…
Summer is unofficially over as we are now past Labor Day but I wanted to share one last wishful weekend in the northeast. As I’ve said before, I’m not a huge fan of winter, but it’s funny that many of us have this great buildup of anticipation for summer, but then once it gets here the reality is that the weather is quite uncomfortable, at least…
Travel is something that I have always enjoyed. Well, I enjoy being other places, the flying/driving/navigating isn’t necessarily my favorite. I had a job assignment once that was 80% travel and that was fun and fit my type A personality. It was travel, but we went to the same location for 4-5 weeks in a row so I was able to establish routines…
