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:
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“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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If you want to understand someone who lived a life of service, you won’t find the answers in a standard life story journal.
