For 2024, I posted four New Year’s resolutions as my alter ego The Man Who Can :    1, a new novel, this time set in Germany; 2, acquiring fluency in German; 3,  more book reviews, and 4, getting better on guitar.

I‘m part way there, on all four goals – except maybe no. 4, but I‘m still working on it. Thanks in good part to the support from our 6-member writing group „Thoth“, I now have a much clearer view of how to develop this new novel.  Duolingo and other online sources plus help from a couple of good, patient German friends have enabled me to reach at least basic fluency in German, book reviews keep coming. But no. 4 is lagging, and now I‘m going to have to give more time to music. Largely but not exclusively German.