I don’t mind saying it, but the last year has been batshit crazy for all of us. Many lost their lives, many more their livelihoods and all of us, their so-called ‘taken for granted’ way of life. Over the last four years, I have lost all the vestiges of the past accomplishments; what remains now is the assertiveness (many read it as arrogance, but that’s all right) of a man comfortable with himself and his limits.

I document my journey as a writer every year around the 20th of Jan. As I wrote ...