It occurred to me that learning to cook, learning an instrument and becoming fluent in a foreign language were all very similar.

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Writing in Winter

You may have heard that I am taking time off to work on my writing. Which raises the question: writing what?

Dirt Happens | Field Notes

Take for instance my first substack post, in it I barely mentioned the restaurant, almost exclusively talking about myself. The ironic part is that if it weren’t for the restaurant there would be no reason for me to be writing this at all. So selfish Pat. Sooo selfish.

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