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  • Dzanc Publishing House Contacted Me After This Review By Lisa McTague

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    Matt

    An Interview with Mathias B. Freese   Is there a message in your novel that you want readers to grasp? This Mobius Strip of Ifs is a collection of essays written over four decades and published here and there as I pursued writing in the late hours of the night and weekends as I worked as an English teacher and later as a psychotherapist. So these essays as I look over them at the autumnal part of my life have some essential themes.   It is a kind of Bilsdungromanof my psychological life as a writer, spiritual seeker, teacher and…

  • Legend Has It: What Is to Be Believed? — a Foray into a Panic Attack

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    Matt

    Legend has it that the Buddha spent a night in a grotto high in the Himalayas. Assuming his position for meditation, the Buddha fell into an unearthly trance. A bat flew out of the grotto. A pebble skittered toward the edge of the cave and fell to the fathoms below. And the world was disturbed forever. Legend also has it that both the bat and the pebble were each meditating and the Buddha fell to his death to the abyss below. And what is to be believed? This summer has been the winter of my discontent. I live in Henderson,…

  • At War Within As I Crack Without

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    Matt

    I am waiting for that cry that will purge, at least for a few moments, all the pent up hurt I am feeling, physically and emotionally. The kind of cry that will express the stress and psychological presure of  seeing doctor after doctor for about two months during this horrible summer. Anxiety keeps me moving about all through the night except for  few hours of sleep, the kind of anxiety that is maddening for there is rare relief from it. Writing at this moment early in the morning this Thursday, August 30, is making me feel less tense and hyper. The…

  • From Desert Jules

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    Matt

      5.0 out of 5 stars This Mobius Strip of Ifs, August 18, 2012 By DesertJules “DJ” (Arizona) – See all my reviews   This review is from: This Möbius Strip of Ifs (Paperback) With deepest apologies to the author for the tardiness of this post, I have put fingers to keys many, many times in an effort to review his book. Never have I felt so inadequate – had so much trouble finding the right words. Perhaps because I have never before read anything with which I connected on so many levels. This Möbius Strip of Ifs is a…