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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Book Review: Steven Pressfield’s “The War of Art”
“Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.” Well, I’m doing it again. I found another book I thought worth mentioning. I know this keeps happening, but my brother-in-law keeps recommending these books…
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The Reluctant
Of all the people, in all the world, how did you come to pick me? Why do I deserve these special maladies? Where did I go wrong? How can I take it back? Is there something I could do to make up for what I lack? Because it’s too much— these illnesses, these defeats. Why,…
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Getting Back to Our Roots
There’s been a surge in climbing and hiking in the past decade or so. It’s noticeable. Places where you never saw cars parked, now have a few. Places where there were five or ten, now have twenty or more. Some places like the AMC Highland Center on Route 302 in Crawford Notch are lined with…
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A National Service Solution to the College Tuition Crisis
I’ve got two kids going off to college next year, and it’s sparked a lot of conversation lately with other parents about the ridiculous cost of sending kids off to a place where most of what they learn is how to party with their peers. It was getting exorbitant in the 1990s, when tuition breached…