About Matt (aka "Big Nerdy")

I am a husband, father, and nerd. I live in Pennsylvania, with my amazing wife Anna, and our two children Luke and Grace.  I'm about 10 minutes away from downtown Harrisburg-Pennsylvania's State Capital.  Even though downtown Harrisburg is so close, Enola is a quiet suburban town, which I LOVE.  I grew up in Southampton, Pennsylvania, which is in Bucks County, just outside the birthplace of our Nation-Philadelphia.

I met my wife when I was working as a Manager for Panera Bread in 2009.  I hired her to work for me for a few months as she prepared to relocate to New York City to pursue professional dancing, but our relationship quickly grew, and two years later, we were married.  I can honestly say she is one of the best things that ever happened to me. 

With our children still being young, we do our best to take advantage of the time we have with them as we know they'll be adults in a blink of an eye. Even working flexible, but crazy hours, you can regularly find us volunteering at school for Field Day, tagging along on school field trips, or classroom assistants and feeding youth in our Community for Friendsgiving, or serving food for Night of Stars (a formal dance evening for our friends with special needs, or teaching Children's Ministry at our church. We also enjoy playing For Sale or No Mercy Uno, having TGIF nights (introducing them to the TV throwbacks we all know and love", taking family day trips, family walks with our dogs (Thor and Gus), watching Luke play Baseball and Flag Football, while Grace enjoys Arts, Crafts, and Dancing.

 

I am a proud and well-rounded geek. The height of my geekery is my love for Star Wars. I even convinced Anna to name our son Luke Skywalker. I have a huge collection of action figures that I have been assembling for over 20 years. 

 

I read comic books, play tabletop games, dabble in video games, and am a reluctant (and unapologetic) fan of professional wrestling.  I am also a huge movie buff, having once aspired to be a filmmaker, and I even had a movie podcast company with my brothers at one point in time. 

 

Aside from my love of all things geek and pop culture, I am a huge fan of the Philadelphia Eagles & Philadelphia Phillies. I love playing fantasy football. Sometimes my "collecting bug" extends to sports, and I collect sports cards as well. 

 

In 2019 I was introduced to the idea of creating a Bucket List.  After a few hours of brainstorming, I created an extensive and ambitious list of things I would like to accomplish in my life.  You can view the "nerd" items of my bucket list at the bottom of this page, and I will update it a few times a year as I can cross things off.