I write the most important fair trade jewelry blog site in the jewelry sector, www.fairjewelry.org. It is a trade and consumer resource and a second full time job. It involves an on going challenge: to keep up with and seek some kind of coherent understanding of what it taking place in the jewelry sector.

I also co-lead a Madison Dialog Manufacturing committee which came out of a cross sector World Bank meeting that is developing international standards for fair trade jewelry manufacturing.

I am passionate about working within a business model that uses the circle, altruism and integrity as a foundation for profitability. I write about these issues, though not as often as I would like to, at www.circlemanifesto.com.

My other full time job consists of developing our websites, strategic planning which happens with Helen at all hours of the day and night, photography, catalog, marketing, some sale and product development. I am not a jewelry designer.

Outside of work I've completed a few novels, non-fiction books and multiple collections of poetry, all of which are unpublished. I have a longstanding passion for travel, wilderness hiking, story/myth, history, depth Jungian psychology, literature, the classics, and Eastern and Native American wisdom traditions.

I read many news/current sources across political spectrums on most days. I was born in Manchester, NH and got the education of an East Coast Brahmin-though I don't have that family lineage. Fortunately I escaped to Santa Fe, where I've been living for about twenty years.