This is a crazy season! The future has come down to a wait and see situation, and anyone who knows me knows that when the going gets tough, the not so tough gets going! So, I end up going …

I was thinking of calling today’s column The State of the Island Address but my daughter Lindsay (AKA “The Jeweler’s Daughter”) said otherwise. Being the kind of person who almost always …

Most folks are not aware that many jewelry stores lack an “in-house” bench jeweler/goldsmith workshop on their premises. This is very common in mall or big box chain stores; the absence of a …

It’s no secret that going through life is a learning adventure. Try explaining that to the present generation, thusly named “Generation Alpha.” Heck, their living is based on other people’s …

A collaboration between Richard Alan and The Jeweler’s Daughter.  There is a current conundrum affecting the jewelry business that has a large percentage of the public questioning the repair …

Many years ago a customer who I hadn’t seen in a dog’s age came in needing a battery for her watch. I wasn’t busy at the time, and I told her that if she had any other errands at the mall, I …

The concept of diamonds representing a symbol of love wasn’t just a marketing scheme invented in the mid-twentieth century. The discovery and use of diamonds goes back thousands of centuries, as …

I may have mentioned in the past that I had reservations about carrying laboratory created diamonds in my shop, and only in the last year have I offered them as an alternative consideration to …