“Today was a rather unremarkable Tuesday filled with quotidian tasks and appointments. A chat with my accountant about taxes. A chat with another singer seeking advice about making an album. Sorting through my finances. A visit to the...”

“For much of the past year, most of my Monday evenings have begun with a book club meeting. Like many people I know, as the nation descended into a spring and summer of racial reckoning in the wake of the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, a circle of my friends from childhood formed a book club to digest and process the concepts that we were reading about in books like…”

“Monday’s return after taking a weekend can always feel a bit jarring, but today’s beginning to the work week felt especially fast-paced and action-packed. Part of the reason for that is definitely because I became distracted by my phone this morning, and lost some of the precious early hours of the day to reading the news…”

“Yesterday I briefly mentioned that part of the goal of this exercise is to try and make my practice of writing more regular, as I attempt to push past the inner critics that paralyze me. It’s tempting to describe this phenomenon as ‘writer’s block’, but I’m not quite sure I am willing to dignify it with such iconic terminology. It feels more like paralysis than a block, and it never feels like I can’t write. It’s just too easy to find any excuse not to write…”

“When I began blogging back in May of 2006, the online landscape was a drastically different and perhaps simpler place. My life was in a simpler place, too. I was still relatively fresh out of a young artist program at the Houston Grand Opera, on the cusp of making my European operatic debut with Oper Frankfurt in a production of Mozart’s La finta semplice. At the beginnings of a professional career without the training wheels of an apprenticeship…”