When I’m not eating ice cream, the one other food that has served me well during this prolonged battle with nerve pain, has been the rotisserie chicken. God bless the rotisserie chicken. And it can’t just be any rotisserie chicken either — it has to be an unseasoned, totally plain one from Hannaford’s, and eaten…
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!
Clawing Your Way Out of the Hole
You’re alone. You’ve been thrown down a deep dark hole somewhere and no one can find you. Nobody’s coming to help either. It’s not that they don’t want to or don’t care, it’s just that nobody knows how to solve the riddle of your predicament. It’s not like they didn’t try either. They gave it their best effort. But the nature of your problem doesn’t fit into a box that anyone knows how to unpack yet, so they turned their attention to those they can actually help. For now, you’re on your own.
This hole you’re in can take many forms: chronic pain, mental health issues, addiction, grief, you name it. It doesn’t matter how you got you here — you’re here. At the bottom. It’s so dark. The reality of your situation upends you and you collapse on the ground in a heap. Distraught and broken, you find yourself wishing for the cave to close in on you and just get it over with. But it doesn’t. The damn walls never budge.
I Want a Vacation From Vacation
I can’t look at a calendar anymore. It doesn’t do me any good because all it shows is how little time I have to myself. So I leave the calendar management to my wife. She’s a calendar wizard whereas I’m a “tell me what’s happening tomorrow when tomorrow happens” kind of guy. I think it…
Raising a Nation of Conspiracy Theorists
My two oldest came home the other day and declared that they refuse to get the vaccine. They said it’s untested and can change your body and it’s too soon to get something like this. Apparently one of their school friends showed them some “real news” from a conspiracy theorist on YouTube, and my kids…