Welcome to 2024, everyone! I hope you had a good slide into the new year — “Guten Rutsch!” as we say in Germany. One of the reasons you didn’t hear from me in a while is that I spent a wonderful week in the frozen wastes of the Dales, in Sweden, surrounded by paper books, paper notebooks and with my phone and laptop turned off.

After stopping by some friends in the north of Germany on the way back, I have now returned to my computer refreshed and with much energy and many new ideas for the coming year.

One of these ideas entails that I will, with renewed conviction, endeavour to spend less time on social media and more time writing on this blog. I’ve been trying, for quite a while, to have notes likes these replace the things I usually post on social media. So please, if you are interested in my projects and the things I write, follow this blog – for example by plugging its RSS feed into your feed reader instead of relying on my social profiles on other sites. And if you got any comments or ideas for improvements, please use the comment function under each post — for notes like this one and other smaller snippets, you will have to visit the post’s permalink to do so. You can also comment directly on the forum, of course.

Other plans for the coming year include finally finishing my novel and more regular streams, including a fixed day for the recording and live streaming of episodes of my podcast The Private Citizen. More on this in another post soon.