This Is Me

Hi. I’m Matt. I live in the Midwest with my beautiful wife (go here, you’ll like it) and my amazing, precocious toddler daughter (she does not yet have a blog). I work in mental health counseling with kids, which is incredibly frustrating, funny, difficult and rewarding (sometimes all at once). I like to write, read, work out, play tennis, follow the St. Louis Cardinals in baseball and the Cincinnati Bengals in football. I like the number 3, can’t stand to be around spiders, don’t like roller coasters but do like the log rides (go figure). I believe in God, love, freedom, saving for a rainy day, and the power of random kindness. I’m apparently somewhat of a glutton for punishment since I repeatedly do the grocery shopping with my two-year-old and often agree to tag along with my wife when she shops for clothes. I like scary stuff and may be the biggest fan of Halloween in the world. I mean the holiday, but I like the movie as well (”I shot him six times!”). I was the lucky recipient of a successful kidney transplant in 2003, and my sister was the miracle-providing donor. (My health is very good now, and I’m grateful). Thanks for checking in. I’ll stop boring you now.