

The songs I liked and listened to the most in 2025.

The songs I liked and listened to the most in 2024.

The highlight of going to Brandi Carlile’s Girls Just Wanna Weekend in Mexico was meeting Kim Richey.

The songs I liked and listened to the most in 2023.

A song memory from a mixed tape I played over and over again during a solo trip to San Francisco in 1995.

The music I listened to most during 2022. A year of endings, new beginnings, and the year we made it to Hawai’i.

The music I listened to most during 2021: the year of the vaccine jab.

Seeing Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen clapping like monkeys on New Year’s Eve reminded me of an essay I wrote in 2004.


In no particular order, here are the songs I listened to the most in 2019.


I spent most of 2018 listening to Brandi Carlile, so this list will include many of her songs. Some tracks below were released prior to 2018—some way prior—but captured my
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