It has been a year since my last Dispatch and its about time I tried to catch up (I have actually had some requests to do so — I have also been told to keep them short).  It was another year filled with pursued and failed opportunity, much joy, hard work and frustration. When I look back, there have been some major accomplishments amongst the many exciting prospects going nowhere.  And through it all, many lessons learned (or more appropriately relearned — it seems that I have to keep learning the same ones).