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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It Could Have Happened
It could have happened in the Mexican bay, tethered to a rope not likely to stay, dropping with the day’s latest news stuffed in your ankle for support. It could have happened in To-hell-u-ride, when you nearly hit that chair on the rise, hurling yourself on a mission everyone knew you should abort. It could…
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Round Pond
Blackflies swarmed about my head, deerflies attacked my gait, and somewhere in the tallgrass ticks lied about in wait. Fauna and fern crowded in, pushing ivy about the path, and when a bundle brushed my leg, I feared it might bring nature’s wrath. It was the kind of day that feels like a sweltering city…
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All These Lives
It didn’t start this way, you know, free to roam about as I pleased. Actually, not even now. I suppose we’re never released. Before the float, I used to climb mountains, out from behind the desk, pushing pen and people so that my bosses could declare success. Some seventy thousand hours over a kaleidoscope screen,…
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The Green Monster Ladder Holds!
The other night, my wife took us all out to the Lumineers concert at Fenway Park. I’d like to say that I did, but this was all her. Her idea. Her treat. Her show. This was the third Lumineers show I’ve been to — none of which, oddly enough, were actually my idea. I like the Lumineers,…