Greetings, my friends, greetings and welcome!
I’m a Gen Xer living in Texas, a Christ-follower, husband, dad to three boys, podcaster, writer, and Mac geek. I love college football, hockey, and baseball.
I worked in the tech sector for a couple of decades. After a 16-year run as a full-time stay-at-home dad, I re-entered the work force in 2020, and currently work in the financial services sector. I grew up in Baton Rouge from the age of five, and still consider it my hometown, even though I’ve now lived in Texas longer than I ever lived there. I attended LSU, where I met my wife of 32 years.
Projects and Endeavors
Two of our three boys came to us through adoption. As a result, I’m keen to assist foster, adoptive, and kinship parents in our roles of helping kids who have experienced trauma; and all foster and adopted kids are kids who have experienced trauma. Hence, this enterprise.
I’m also a total nerd: I was a band geek in middle and high school; I’ve read science fiction and fantasy since elementary school; I’ve collected comic books since I was six; I started playing Dungeons & Dragons when I was in the sixth grade (WAY before it was cool); and I’ve been into computing of one form or another since I was 11.
To those ends, I currently host two podcasts:
- The Empowered Parent Podcast: The Empowered Parent Podcast with Kayla and Ryan North is a trust-based, trauma-informed, connected parenting resource, hosted by yours truly.
- The Big Fat Geek Podcast: I co-host this podcast with my friends Nathan and Dallas. We wanted to offer a podcast for folks like us: casual nerds interested in movies, comics, science fiction, fantasy, gaming, and other aspects of geek culture, but who are balancing marriages and kids with their passion for geeky things.
I had the privilege of hosting Tapestry Conference, 2018 – 2021.
One of the ways we maintain ties to Rwanda, the homeland of our youngest, is through Imana Kids, a non-profit devoted to helping orphans and street kids in Kigali. We aim to meet the basic needs of all the kids we sponsor—food, water, shelter, and love. We strive to provide the best possible education for each of them. Imana kids work in Rwanda’s tourism industry, are professional drivers in Kigali, bakers, seamstresses, artisans, mechanics, and one is attending Creighton University in Nebraska!
In 2018, we began the Hope Village project, where we seek to provide a trauma-informed educational and healing environment for these young men and women who have been left behind by Rwandan society.
Contact
Feel free to reach out to me on Twitter/X or via email:
Sarcasm is my love language (along with bacon).
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The Tech Stack
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