Joel Potter:  

Life I was in the Navy for a few years, then came back to Omaha afterwards. I left Omaha in 1981, never to return. At least that was my plan. I lived in Denver, Minneapolis, and the Bay Area. In 1989 I pursued working in the fitness industry, which anyone who remembers me knows was perhaps one of the leat likely things I was on a trajectory for during my youth. That "never-say-never" thing seems to have bit me in the butt. Hard. I returned to Omaha in 1989 with the plan of being back for 5 years. That was fine, as I had experienced enough to see that Omaha wasn't a bad place to be. I stayed until 2019, moving to the mountains of southern Colorado full-time at a home I had purchased in 2017. When Covid hit I was in the best place possible to deal with the lockdown. I lived on 35 acres on a subdivided 3,500-acre ranch in a county with one stoplight and just 5,000 people. Covid and a few other factors kicked the snott out of my business, so I returned to Omaha in 2022 to see if I had enough gas left in my tank to turn some things around. It's almost 2024 as I write this. Life has been a hoot so far, with lots of ups and downs, but more ups than downs, fo...Expand for more