matthew

It may be fair to say that I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.  When I was a kid, I was always into some sort of artis­tic activ­ity. Draw­ing, paint­ing, clay…you name it. I also enjoyed writ­ing short sto­ries. At some point, I thought, “Hey, I want to be an archi­tect.”  I went off to col­lege ready to design. Unfor­tu­nately, I got a lit­tle tripped up with cal­cu­lus and physics — along with, how shall I say this, social activ­i­ties. I turned my aca­d­e­mic atten­tion to lit­er­a­ture, and even­tu­ally law. Since grad­u­at­ing for col­lege and law school, I have spent the major­ity of my career in the polit­i­cal and gov­ern­ment rela­tions arena, with a short stint work­ing on non-branded mar­ket­ing in New York.

Per­haps I fall into the box of one that doesn’t feel a career defines him. I sus­pect the rea­son for say­ing that is because I have not, in earnest, pur­sued the very things that make me tick. One of them is writ­ing. It is as if my life has come full cir­cle, and here I am with a blog [occa­sion­ally] writ­ing short sto­ries. Pho­tog­ra­phy was some­thing that I was cer­tain was my one true pas­sion, but my inter­est has waned. I am con­tin­u­ally in pur­suit of the thing, or things, that I would hap­pily spend my days and nights doing. Please bear with me as I sort that out.

So, there you have it. My ambi­tions boiled down to two short paragraphs.

As for this blog, I hope that you enjoy the things that I post. I try to share and reveal things that inter­est, move, alarm, con­cern,  and inspire me. I am com­mit­ted to putting in more time to post­ing my thoughts and con­tent. I’d appre­ci­ate your feed­back on the things that I post in the com­ment section.

why is the site called “my name is not matt?”

Allow me to take a moment to explain the title of this site and blog.

As far back as I can remem­ber, there has not been a time when I’ve had a pos­i­tive reac­tion to being called Matt. I typ­i­cally try to nip the “Matt thing” in the bud right away; hop­ing that address­ing it early will dis­suade peo­ple from think­ing that as they get to know me bet­ter, I some­how morph into Matt. No…not so much. As a mat­ter of fact, being really famil­iar with me means you know how much I hate being called Matt. Accord­ingly, I always refer to peo­ple by their full name unless I am instructed otherwise.

I won’t bela­bor this issue. I started this blog a cou­ple years ago as a cathar­tic exer­cise. One of the first things I wanted to get past was being apolo­getic for want­ing to called me by my full name. I ran with that idea for the title and bought the domain. I would much rather chan­nel my energy toward fur­ther devel­op­ing my writ­ing and pho­tog­ra­phy. Please hang with me, and let’s see where this goes.