Personally, 2025 was a pretty good year for me, even though it was an
absolute dumpster fire politically and socially. If anything, it's even worse
than I had thought a second Trump administration would be. The hatred
toward brown and black people, immigrants, and trans people is
unbelievable, as are the various assaults on the rule of law. This is the most
corrupt administration ever, with the Trump family hauling
in hundreds of millions from various schemes. I'm glad that there's so
much resistance and that Democratic candidates are overperforming.
May that trend continue.
I've been writing more and more over the last few years. In 2025,
retired from full-time work, I published 57 pieces, broken down as follows.
- 36 reviews, of which three were CD reviews. The rest were reviews of live performances.
- 21 artist spotlights, interviews, news articles, features, and previews.
I published in the S.F. Chronicle, San Francisco Classical Voice (SFCV),
Opera Magazine, Opera Now, Parterre Box, and the journal of the
Wagner Society of Northern California. I had never published in Opera Now
or Parterre Box before, and the piece in Opera Magazine was big, 2000 words
on Opera San José. I still haven’t pitched an article I’ve been thinking about for
the last year, but I will pitch it soon.
