Hennen: A lunch that became a lesson

I’ve been blessed to be a storyteller for a few decades now. I started hosting a talk show on the radio in Grand Forks back in 1986. The medium was the first social media and long before the internet age.

Decades before that, families gathered around the radio for all their news and entertainment. It was theater without a stage, painting pictures with words instead of images on a screen. That’s always been the part I loved — telling stories, creating connections, and giving people something they can see in their mind’s eye.

These days, I still tell stories on the radio every day, but I also spend a good part of my time helping businesses big and small tell their own stories, in hopes of finding new customers. It’s a labor of love. And sometimes, in the course of that work, I stumble into