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My dear friend Jay Dobyns always says that “wisdom” is always something that comes to him usually just right after he needs it; that couldn’t be a better description of this journey I call “My Life”. I was speaking to my therapist the other day and advised her that I was in this season of reflection. Maybe it is because of the holidays, maybe it is the the people we help daily, but probably it’s due to the word I loathe so much called “Grief”. I haven’t written a blog since m

Every dispatcher has a call or a phrase over the radio they never want to hear. I was no exception. On my shift, we seemed to get very bad calls more frequently than others. We’ve heard things no one should have to. We had an officer get shot after a pursuit, a fireman lose his life and children not make it out of a structure fire. While handling these emergencies, the toll it takes on your emotions is a hard on you. Little did I know, these were the easier of the “bad” calls

What do you do when it ends? When the career that you worked so hard for ends. The career that helped define who you were ends. Even though it was such a difficult and sometimes heart wrenching, you loved it. It becomes part of you, part of your personality. So what do you do when that journey ends? For me my journey came to end on cold December night at the end of a sawed off 12 gauge wielded by drug addict. There is not a day goes by that I don’t miss being in the field and