Brian Brooks:  

Life Hello, Everybody... Sometimes it seems like forever since we were in school, and other times it seems like it was just yesterday. I'm still in Atlanta - no plans to leave. Dianna and I were married in January of 1989. We have three great children - two girls, 16 & 14, and one boy, who is 11. They're all three involved in sports, and they're really good kids. We spend most evenings between the ballpark, basketball games, football games, or track meets, and while it's hectic, that's the way we want it. I'm still at Kroger (since December of 1977). I've done lots of things in my career - when we were in school, I was stocking groceries or running a cash register at the old Belvedere store. I went into management in the late 80's. I ran a store for a few years, had responsibility for a zone for a few years, and since 1996, I've been responsible for merchandising & marketing at the corporate office at Northlake. Hopefully somehow by 2017 (after 40 years) I can afford to retire! (Please pray that the HOPE scholarship stays healthy, otherwise, with all the college educations coming at us, it may be 2037, when I'm 76.) After high school, because I was working so much, I wasted a lot of time during the college years, and only got about halfway through. I surely wish I had stayed focused then. But you know, "a bird in the hand" and all that stuff. My parents warned me, but of course, I knew better than they did. Before I knew it, I had taken several promotions, which made it tough to work school into my schedule. Then I got married, then we had kids, etc.. etc... I always promised myself I'd do it "soo...Expand for more