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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That First Apartment
Inside is the vague smell of dust but it fades with conversation, and despite the overt presence of old, unwanted furniture, the noisy fridge and broken stove, waves of warm voodoo flick the air. And when Boston’s winter nights seep through the windows and paper walls, marked with laughter in lasting ink, the furnace will…
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The How
You’ve got your reasons, everyone does. That’s not the story. Though we read book after book telling us that if it were not for the reasons, the hero would never make it. But two people can drum up the same why, feel the same why, the same way, and end at different stops along the…
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The Only Vessel
The odds suggested it would never sail and carry the plans drafted on the hard, but against lightning, hurricanes and hail, it proved itself deserving of regard. Yes, its hull leaks and the rudder is kinked, and spittle keeps blowing through the porthole, but just when you think it’s about to sink, the gunnels lift…
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Silence
Silence can terrify so many unprepared, who were unaware that the sun can possibly rise twice in the same day, but in time hands spin, seasons change, all bringing into view a friend found in silence
