Diamonds Around the Web

The thing about shopping for a diamond in a mall is that it’s incongruous. It smells like ice cream and leather inside. There’s a fashion event going on; the music is loud.

Things have changed since the last time Will and Lauryn and I went looking for an engagement ring and wedding…

You know the scene. The bended knee, the glittering stone. The initial astonishment and subsequent answer in the enthusiastic affirmative. And the ring—always the ring—ready at hand, set, mounted, slipped on. A perfect fit. But most people I know don’t do the scene. Or the scene comes…