Welcome to MADCTY!

This site is still under construction—but the idea behind it has been lived for a long time.

MADCTY is about staying active, curious, and engaged with life. Especially in the years when routines get heavier, responsibilities stack up, and it becomes easy to tell yourself that some parts of you belong to the past. This isn’t about trying to be young again. It’s about not shrinking.

For me, this journey started after divorce. Not because divorce is the point—but because it forced a reset. It stripped things back and made it impossible to ignore what I’d been putting off. Movement came first. Then curiosity. Then play. Slowly, identity followed.

At the same time, this isn’t a story that ends there.

There are strong marriages and partnerships where people actively support each other in staying whole—physically, creatively, personally. I know that now not just in theory, but in practice. I’m engaged to be married, and the life I’m building today includes movement, adventure, and growth shared, not postponed.

How you arrive at this place doesn’t matter. Divorce. Marriage. Single. Somewhere in between. The only thing that matters is whether you’re still showing up for your own life.

At 45, I stepped back onto a skateboard with my son—thirty-three years after the last time I tried. That led to longboards. Then back onto single-track bike trails through the river valley, chasing the memory of races I rode more than three decades earlier.

One thing cracked open another.

Now it’s paddling, hiking, cycling, skating—boards and ice—climbing walls, trampoline parks. Sometimes with my kids. Sometimes with friends. Sometimes alone. Always reminding me that my body still wants to move, and my mind still wants to explore.

Balance matters too. I need creative outlets just as much as physical ones—playing guitar, photography, videography, building things, learning how things work. Making something from nothing.

You might notice most of this leans solo or small-group. That’s the introvert in me. If you’re a team-sport person, an extrovert, or thrive in louder spaces—that’s just a different path up the same hill.

There’s no single way to do this right.

The only requirement is that you don’t check out early.

That you keep trying things.

That you stay open to feeling capable, playful, and alive.

That’s MADCTY.

And this time, it’s not about starting over—it’s about continuing forward, with intention.