Happy Birthday baby girl. You’ve been an exceptional addition to the tribe! #Wakefieldblackgirlmagic

I’ve spent most of my life trying to plan it. I’ve learned the hard way that it doesn’t matter how life works out, it just matters that life works. So, yeah, this is my life and I love it for all the predictably unpredictable moving parts of it.

Here’s what I’ve learned about managing chronic illness: it never happens at a convenient time. Yet, we can’t let it define us. Instead, let’s allow our struggles to refine us.

Now I know that the best thing I can offer to this world is not my force or energy, but a well-tended spirit, a wise and brave soul- Shauna Neiquist

To my brilliant daughter Riley, who first made me a father. Happy Birthday RC Cola.

I’ve had the good fortune of knowing my wife for exactly half of my life now, and yet I can’t imagine any of my life without her.

As a father raising four daughters, the best gift that I’ve given myself (and them) has been learning how to process my own emotions so that I can sit with them as they process theirs.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams- Eleanor Roosevelt. What a future we are creating, one dream at a time.

There’s a sense of purpose and belonging that comes with being rooted somewhere, connected to a community. I hope the roots we establish here provide a firm foundation for my girls as they branch out.

I love it when life experiences reframe our perspective and we come to realize that perhaps the world is bigger than we thought.