Have you heard of “Fair and Ethically Sourced Gold Jewelry”? Wow! That sounds great, doesn’t it? Now, many of you who are seriously looking to buy an engagement ring have heard of the “Kimberly Process”. To those of you that don’t know, it is an agreement by a group of nations to certify diamonds that

As the daughter of a diamond dealer whose office was on 47th Street in Manhattan, I was both an insider and an outsider at the same time. An outsider because I was a woman, and an insider because I was privy to all the details of a dying, pre-digital, age-old business in the mid-20th century.

When I opened the door to interview a temporary babysitter, it was a case of Mr. Mom meet Pippi Longstockings. Before me stood a preternaturally thin, redheaded man of indeterminate age.  He grinned, revealing a gap-toothed smile, with one brilliant, yellow diamond set into his front tooth. This matched the one in his left earlobe.