Hello there. My name is Matt and this is my main blog.

This blog can be ably summed up, thusly:

“Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries, and everything they thought and every struggle they went through and everything they gave their lives to, and every song they created, and every poem that they laid down flows down to me – and if I take the time to ask, and if I take the time to see, and if I take the time to reach out, I can build that bridge between my world and theirs. I can reach down into that river and take out what I need to get through this world”

― Utah Phillips

At The Rank Spoon, you will a complete appreciation for a good story. Additionally, you will find:

• write-ups of whatever I have been reading
• thoughts about the literature/publishing world
• and the occasional original story.

I hope you enjoy it.

Thanks for reading this.

Matt