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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!
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Battling Chronic Nerve Pain – Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

Posted on January 26, 2020August 12, 2025

So I screwed up. Against my better judgment, I took my doctor’s advice and tried another med to combat the chronic nerve pain in my esophagus…

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Learning Social Media in Your 40s

Posted on January 23, 2020April 18, 2025

Ok, so I’m a bit of a Luddite. At the turn of the century, I was the last person I knew to get a cellphone. When I did finally get one, it was a flip phone, but people had already moved on to Blackberrys. After a couple of years listening to my friends rave about…

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A Dead Man’s Checks

Posted on January 20, 2020June 17, 2025

Every month I get paid by a dead man. This has been going on since October of 2014, when one of my former tenants passed away in his early 40s from cancer. He had set up his rent payments for automatic delivery and never got the chance to stop the recurrence before he died. I’ve…

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Is Anyone Just About the Writing Anymore?

Posted on January 17, 2020July 21, 2025

Growing up, my dad used to warn me that if I wanted to be a writer, I better be prepared to be broke. That the life of a writer requires a lifetime of eating Ramen noodles and smoking cigarettes, and if I had any other life plans that required money, I would need to put…

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Love the mountains? 4000s by 40 is a story of missteps, hard-earned lessons, and the mountains that shape us.
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