When we heard that our new friend Conor loved dinosaurs as much as we do, we couldn’t help but be thrilled when she agreed to being in our “Cool Rings for Cool People” blog! And she definitely has a very cool ring (with a very cool story about it to match!)
TLC: What is your favorite place in the whole wide world?
Conor: Anywhere where my backpack’s behind me and my son in front of me.
TLC: Childhood ambition?
C: To dig up dinosaurs and put them back together again.
TLC: Current ambition?
C: Not let today slip away, bake a five layer cake with homemade frosting, perfect my Spanish, get on airplane without knowing where it’s going.
TLC: What would you do if you had a million dollars?
C: Hand out twenty dollar bills like parking tickets and get on an airplane without knowing where it’s going.
TLC: Who is your partner?
C: An occasionally shy, always humorous British boy with a killer crooked smile and a way with building furniture.
TLC: How did you and your partner decide to get married?
C: We stopped thinking and dove in. Literally- he proposed next to a swimming pool (because we wanted the ring to evoke the moment we took the literal and figurative plunge) and then he threw me in!
TLC: What does your wedding/engagement/commitment ring look like?
C: It is a sapphire with two small diamonds on opposite sides made by Tom McCaffery in Chicago. We later commissioned Tom to make a pair of earrings when Declan was born to expand the orbit to include all three of us.
TLC: What do you think about your ring(s)?
C: I get lost in it and wander to all of the places we still have to get lost in together.
TLC: Pets?
C: Our 2 year old son.
TLC: What do you do for work?
C: Bookkeeper for artists and nonprofits, while studying for CPA exam.
TLC: What are you passionate about?
C: Taking people places they never thought they’d go.
TLC: What is the last book you read?
C:”The Canon: The Beautiful Basics of Science” by Natalie Angier
TLC: Favorite beverage?
C: Sapphire and tonic with lime, light on the ice.
TLC: Sweetest indulgence?
C: Concerts that start after midnight.
TLC: What is your favorite physical feature?
C: The Jersey Shore.
