One Ring

For about the last 9 years, I’ve been wearing a silver ring on my right middle finger. All through college and even into my first years out, I wore my high school class ring on my right ring finger. In Seattle I started wearing a silver ring on my left middle finger. I thought it was cool to be able to talk in class about silver and gold and have them represented on my hands. Then when I moved to Baltimore, I stopped wearing my class ring. I wore only the silver, and I moved it to my right hand. Last October I got rather a nasty infection on my right index finger. It got worse before it got better, but that’s another story. I’ll do a whole separate page on that some time. Anyway, I stopped wearing my right hand ring because it made my swollen index finger feel even more strange than it already did.

I have decided to start wearing rings again. I actually have kind of a collection of them. Most of them are silver because they are so cheap to get at those carts in the mall. I do have one stainless steel ring. It has a tension setting with a sapphire in it. I don’t think silver is stiff enough to do tension settings. Another one is not silver because it’s a bottle opener! So anyway, because of my collection, I get to decide which ring to wear each day. My favorite is the ring that looks like a nut. But I wore that yesterday. I like them all though. I think I will wear the one that looks like a chain today.