I’ve been a 911 dispatcher since 2001 & I was a certified EMT for four years. My husband’s been a police officer for over a decade. And our circle — family, friends, coworkers, is filled with people who serve: in dispatch, fire, EMS, corrections, law enforcement, the military, and nursing.
About Us:
Built for two reasons: we lived it, & we knew others would want to remember it.
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Over the years, one thing kept coming up in conversations, again and again:
“We should’ve written that down.”
The stories. The laughs. The hard calls. The ones we still talk about, and the ones we never could. What a book it would’ve been.
Because you really do forget.
You get so used to the chaos, you start to normalize it. Then years pass, and you realize those were the stories worth saving.
That’s one of the reasons we created Lines & Legacy... to give people in these careers a place to start writing it down. Not everything. Just the stuff that stuck.
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The second reason? Legacy. After trying to preserve my own family's history, I realized that most "tell me your story" books just don’t work for a life in service.
They skip the wild calls. The dark humor. The shifts that changed you. A typical memory book can’t hold that kind of story.
So we made journals that could.
These aren’t just keepsakes. They’re a place to capture what this job really does to you, how it shapes your values, your humor, your perspective, and your purpose.
If you want to understand someone who lived a life of service, you won’t find the answers in a standard life story journal.
