If It's Shreveport It Must Be Tuesday

<p>It's 2001 and technology startups are melting down faster than the polar ice caps including the telecom company where Marilyn Carr had been employed for barely four months. With an eye-watering mortgage on her fixer-upper house in downtown Toronto unemployment was not an option.</p><p>Then Lady Luck dropped a lucrative consulting contract in her lap. All-expenses-paid travel across the United States interviewing fascinating business leaders and writing compelling success stories. And U.S. dollars in the bank.</p><p>What she didn't bank on was the culture shock. The country next door was like another planet. Even the <em>USA Today</em> weather map dissolved into a fuzzy void above the 49th parallel.</p><p>Join our heroine as she becomes a road warrior in a foreign land and channels her inner Mary Tyler Moore: making it on her own.</p>