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Weekend Pressure Cooker Pot Roast

If experience is life’s best teacher and navigator, she’s taken me on a remarkable ride. I have always loved sport, but until recently I was more of a fan than a participant.  My first and deepest love was, and always will be, music. Playing and singing from a young age in Canada, music meant many things to me over the years, though I had no idea at the time that it was laying the foundation for a lifelong engagement with innovation.

There is a special kind of disappointment that comes from closing a romance novel, staring at the wall for ten full minutes, and realizing that men like that do not, in fact, exist in the wild. Not at the grocery store. Not at the gas station. Not on dating apps. Not leaning against the bar looking mysterious in dark denim and bad decisions. Nowhere.

There are only two things that can happen in any community: it can be invested in, or it can be exploited. Either way, someone benefits. The question is whether the people who live and work there are gaining wealth or watching it leave.