[blockquote cite="From the movie, “The Iron Lady" (© 2012 Weinstein Company)" type="left, center, right"]What are your thoughts, for they become words. What are your words, for they become your actions. What are your actions, for they become your habits. What are your...

Trooper Carrie was on duty moving with traffic. From behind her a motorhome flew by and then immediately cut her off. "Did they really just almost hit my patrol car?! Oh my word! How brazen is that! They are soooo getting a ticket." Lights on. Radio...

Part of my job is software training. One of the products I train is map building software. Here's how it works: Someone places an emergency call (9-1-1) to a police department. The software grabs the caller's location and plots it on a map. Easy enough. But before all...

It was John's first year as a state trooper. He came up behind an older white Honda sedan with two male occupants. The front windshield was broken badly, violating state law. He turned on the lights to make the stop, and the car started to slow. As it did, the...

This following story goes way back, when ambulance drivers and funeral homes drivers were the same thing. I'm glad they finally stopped that practice. It kind of seems like a conflict of interest to combine the roles of medic and hearse driver. It was drizzling. Brian...

If you've ever travelled with kids… and you have JUST passed a rest area only to hear somewhere in the back that little voice ring out, "I have to go to the bathroom. Really bad!" … You should be able to sympathize with this story. It was a trip for a church youth...

My son turned 13 last week. That's a big deal in our house. Yes, we now have a teenager in the house, but the bigger deal is that we have "a man in training" walking around. He looks like the same kid he was a couple of weeks ago, but he will never be a child again....

If you are a sworn officer, you've probably pulled someone over at least once. A trooper once shared with me that he had pulled over motorcycle rider on a stretch of road. Since the road was a little narrow, both the driver and trooper stepped over the guardrail while...

[line] I love great stories. I'm fascinated when life seems stranger than fiction. All the stories I intend to relate to you in this blog are true. To the best of my effort, the details are accurate. They have been shared with me from police officers, sheriffs, 9-1-1...