Today I found the tiniest of windows in the week to escape for the mountains, and I chose Mount Willard as my quarry. Mount Willard is a great hike if you’re looking to take the kids without inciting a full-on mutiny. It’s just long enough to make you feel immersed in nature, and just short…
Author: Matt Larson
With my first book, 4000s by 40, released this fall, I am fulfilling a lifelong dream of writing, and am excited to continue the journey of storytelling with future projects—so much so that the day after I published 4000s by 40, I began my next work.
Much of my inspiration comes from nature. My early love for the ocean, found on the South Shore of Massachusetts, has transitioned into a deep passion for the mountains here in New Hampshire, and I wanted to share that with my first book.
If you’d like to connect or have any inquiries, you can reach out to me at [email protected]. I’m also on Instagram and Facebook at wanderingmatt8. Happy reading!
Existential Windshield Wipers
Every week—really every day—I make a point of trying to learn something new. A new skill, a new fact, a new place, a new anything. Sometimes these learnings are driven by curiosity, and sometimes they are presented to me as an opportunity. Like this morning, when the rubber on one of my windshield wipers frayed…
Memoirs by Men: Not Much Demand
When I first started sending copies of my memoir to agents, I received a lot of positive feedback, but there was a consistent message coming back to me. The start of the conversation usually went something like this: “we like your writing, but, you’re a man writing a memoir. That’s the least popular type of…
The Only Way to Is Through
It came unexpectedly,
when there was no danger in sight,
and shook every fiber of being
that long and frightful night.
No explanation, no comfort came
in the days and years ahead,
but you continued all the same,
plodding on when you could have fled.