Welcome!
My name’s Matt, and I love to write and hike. I’m the author of 4000s by 40 and am currently working on book two. When I’m not doing that, I come here to share tales from the trail, reflections on the writing process, and explore hidden truths.
Whether you’re a hiker, a writer, or just someone trying to figure out their own next step, I hope this site encourages you to keep getting outside, keep exploring, and keep making new discoveries. I suppose this place serves as a very public reminder to myself that I need to keep doing the same.
Enjoy it out there!
What’s New
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A Fallen Tree
I spent so much time on it, wasting time on it, thinking myself a fallen tree. A ghost trail of pine needles and broken branches, never to be ventured again. While hikers and pretenders kept on walking by, I observed who I used to be, And wondered if there were times when the ground forgot…
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Thoughts on Theo
So, if you’re a big reader, it will have been hard for you to have missed hearing about Allen Levi’s Theo of Golden. With over 2.5 million copies sold, it’s one of the biggest books of the year and has captured the hearts and minds of many. It’s also caught a lot of flak. Some…
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Wait, Should I Be Here?
There’s a path in my town I’ve been driving by for years, that I’ve always wondered about. There’s no trail sign for it. There’s no designated parking lot for it either. But every time I pull up to this one intersection, I can see down this path and it looks like it runs for a…
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I Can Grow Things!
I’m not fifty yet, but something in my left knee keeps telling me that it won’t be long before AARP magazines come fluttering along the summer breeze and land safely on my front door. Is it weird that I’m kind of interested in what they have to say? Maybe they’ll tell me how I can…