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A scrapbook and Some Run-on Sentences by Dennis Quaintance, CEO & CSO (Chief Storytelling Officer) Read our Winter 2019 Neighborhood Letter Positive purposeful processes (say that real fast three times) grounded in genuine collaboration, courage, playfulness, energy, focus, and connecting our behaviors to our agreed-upon intentions are a blast and might even result in some great outcomes. As promised, in ... Read More

A Rambling (and Cure for Insomnia) by Dennis Quaintance, CEO & CSO (Chief Storytelling Officer) Read our Winter 2018 Neighborhood Letter Collaboration is on my mind because I’ve been in the thick of it with even more people working on more topics and challenges than usual. The O.Henry “After 20 Years” (OH2O) hotel update project and my volunteer work with ... Read More

A Rambling by Dennis Quaintance, CEO & CSO (Chief Storytelling Officer) Read our Summer 2018 Neighborhood Letter Nancy and New Dennis atTrattoria Ruggero, Florence My great friend Don Rives said that generally speaking there isn’t a mutually experienced horizon, only the horizon that we are currently taking in. Metaphorically and literally I find this notion fun to noodle. For years, ... Read More

A Rambling by Dennis Quaintance, CEO & CSO (Chief Storytelling Officer) Read our Winter 2017 Neighborhood Letter Some civic groups have asked me to talk about this outfit being employee owned since we made that announcement last winter. It is an honor to share this story with our neighbors. I usually mention that after 45 years in the restaurant and ... Read More

A Rambling by Dennis Quaintance, CEO & CSO (Chief Storytelling Officer) I’m certainly not the first person to be amazed by the way we can sort of “become” our dominant thoughts. Ever since I was but a pup working at a hotel across the Clark Fork River from the U. of M. in Missoula, Montana — I started working in ... Read More

A rambling by Dennis Quaintance, CEO & CSO (Chief Storytelling Officer) | Holiday 2015 Four years ago Nancy and I took a bit of a mini-sabbatical. Mostly we walked from inn to inn in the UK, averaging around 15 miles a day, loving our wonderful quiet time together. (I’m the luckiest guy in the world to get to share my ... Read More

A rambling by Dennis Quaintance, CEO & CSO (Chief Storytelling Officer) (Also see our Summer 2015 Newsletter) In the Rambling I penned for our last letter, I shared some nostalgic stories that centered on what has happened with this outfit over this past quarter-century. As promised, here is Part II. In it, I’ll take on the why and how of our short ... Read More

A rambling by Dennis Quaintance, CEO & CSO (Chief Storytelling Officer) (Some have suggested “CBSO”!) (Also see our Summer 2014 Newsletter) Come June 5th, Lucky 32 Southern Kitchen will be 25 years old. This is a humbling milestone for us. They say (I always wonder who those “theys” are) that most restaurants close during their first year, while 70 percent ... Read More

A rambling by Dennis Quaintance, CEO & CSO (Chief Storytelling Officer) November 23rd is a special day on our calendars: That’s when, in 1998, in a low-key way, we opened the O.Henry Hotel and Green Valley Grill. It was a big year all around: On January 3rd our partner’s wife, Katherine Weaver, gave birth to their twins, Will and “Brother ... Read More

A rambling about why and how we expand our frame of reference by Dennis Quaintance, CEO, CDO (Chief Design Officer) (Also see our Fall 2013 Newsletter) Tough work… but somebody’s got to do it! Our frame of reference trips are on my mind because in January, Leigh Hesling, the Chef at Print Works Bistro and Green Valley Grill, and Jay ... Read More