Letters from the Bench: Why August Feels Like a Second New Year
Beach Comber

Letters from the Bench: Why August Feels Like a Second New Year

Every August, I notice something begins to shift. The mornings arrive just a little earlier. The evenings linger a little longer. Stores fill with backpacks and notebooks, calendars begin filling u...
Carrying Stories in Silver and Gold: The History and Heart of Storytelling Jewelry
handcrafted jewelry

Carrying Stories in Silver and Gold: The History and Heart of Storytelling Jewelry

For as long as people have walked the earth, we have told stories.  Around fires, in painting, with song, and through symbols etched into stone and carved into metal, storytelling is how we have ma...