While in Paris doing an appraisal of the  Chaumet inventory, I found myself  with the owner of the company I worked for, lost at night on thestreets of Paris with no Idea of where we were staying, or even how to get back to where we had come from.

Look who's walking in from the woods

Stories about my childhood growing up in Detroit, my college and graduate school  years in chemistry living in Portland OR, my clinical chemistry research years spent in LA,  my gemologist years spent in New York City, and lastly my years in Israel with my wife. Theseare the stories, Ideas and events which shaped my life as an orthodox jew,  and those who helped me find my way...