Zinta Aistars's Blog, page 10
March 29, 2015
Between the Lines: Mysteries in the Wild
by Zinta Aistars
for WMUK 102.1 FM
Between the Lines is my weekly radio show about books and writers with a Michigan connection. It airs every Tuesday at 7:50 a.m., 11:55 a.m., and 4:20 p.m. (or listen anytime online), on WMUK 102.1 FM, Southwest Michigan's NPR affiliate. I am the host of Between the Lines.
This week's guest: Joseph Heywood.
Joe Heywood and friend in northern Michigan
Few authors are as prolific as Joseph Heywood, who will soon have 20 books on the shelf with his na...
for WMUK 102.1 FM
Between the Lines is my weekly radio show about books and writers with a Michigan connection. It airs every Tuesday at 7:50 a.m., 11:55 a.m., and 4:20 p.m. (or listen anytime online), on WMUK 102.1 FM, Southwest Michigan's NPR affiliate. I am the host of Between the Lines.
This week's guest: Joseph Heywood.
Joe Heywood and friend in northern MichiganFew authors are as prolific as Joseph Heywood, who will soon have 20 books on the shelf with his na...
March 23, 2015
Between the Lines: Time of the Locust
by Zinta Aistars
for WMUK 102.1 FM
Between the Lines is my weekly radio show about books and writers with a Michigan connection. It airs every Tuesday at 7:50 a.m., 11:55 a.m., and 4:20 p.m. (or listen anytime online), on WMUK 102.1 FM, Southwest Michigan's NPR affiliate. I am the host of Between the Lines.
This week's guest: Morowa Yejidé.
Morowa Yejidé at a book signing.
As is often true of “overnight successes,” Morowa Yejidé’s (pronounced: Moe-roe-wah Ya...
for WMUK 102.1 FM
Between the Lines is my weekly radio show about books and writers with a Michigan connection. It airs every Tuesday at 7:50 a.m., 11:55 a.m., and 4:20 p.m. (or listen anytime online), on WMUK 102.1 FM, Southwest Michigan's NPR affiliate. I am the host of Between the Lines.
This week's guest: Morowa Yejidé.
Morowa Yejidé at a book signing.As is often true of “overnight successes,” Morowa Yejidé’s (pronounced: Moe-roe-wah Ya...
March 17, 2015
Between the Lines: Fighting for Literacy
by Zinta Aistars
for WMUK 102.1 FM
Between the Lines is my weekly radio show about books and writers with a Michigan connection. It airs every Tuesday at 7:50 a.m., 11:55 a.m., and 4:20 p.m. (or listen at anytime online), on WMUK 102.1 FM, Southwest Michigan's NPR affiliate. I am the host of Between the Lines.
This week's guest: Kathy Jennings and Michael Evans.
Kathy Jennings and Michael Evans in the WMUK studio
Reading isn’t just about picking up a great novel. It’s about being able to...
for WMUK 102.1 FM
Between the Lines is my weekly radio show about books and writers with a Michigan connection. It airs every Tuesday at 7:50 a.m., 11:55 a.m., and 4:20 p.m. (or listen at anytime online), on WMUK 102.1 FM, Southwest Michigan's NPR affiliate. I am the host of Between the Lines.
This week's guest: Kathy Jennings and Michael Evans.
Kathy Jennings and Michael Evans in the WMUK studioReading isn’t just about picking up a great novel. It’s about being able to...
March 12, 2015
Fifty sweet years of maple sugaring at Kalamazoo Nature Center
by Zinta Aistars
Published in Southwest Michigan's Second Wave Media
March 12, 2015
Boiling sap (Photo by Kalamazoo Nature Center)
The Kalamazoo Nature Center with its 1,100 acres of wooded rolling land and varied educational offerings is recognized as one of the top nature centers in the nation. And for 50 years it’s been celebrating the coming of spring with the Maple Sugar Festival.
Before the first crocus has yet pushed its green spikes above the snow, before the icicles have yet fallen...
Published in Southwest Michigan's Second Wave Media
March 12, 2015
Boiling sap (Photo by Kalamazoo Nature Center)The Kalamazoo Nature Center with its 1,100 acres of wooded rolling land and varied educational offerings is recognized as one of the top nature centers in the nation. And for 50 years it’s been celebrating the coming of spring with the Maple Sugar Festival.
Before the first crocus has yet pushed its green spikes above the snow, before the icicles have yet fallen...
March 9, 2015
Between the Lines: Poetry Connections
by Zinta Aistars
for WMUK 102.1 FM
Between the Lines is my weekly radio show about books and writers with a Michigan connection. It airs every Tuesday at 7:50 a.m., 11:55 a.m., and 4:20 p.m., on WMUK 102.1 FM, Southwest Michigan's NPR affiliate. I am the host of Between the Lines.
This week's guest: Kathleen McGookey.
Kathi McGookey
To Kathleen McGookey, poetry is “a way to pay attention. Very close attention. To the smallest detail, the smallest moment.”Primarily a writer of prose...
for WMUK 102.1 FM
Between the Lines is my weekly radio show about books and writers with a Michigan connection. It airs every Tuesday at 7:50 a.m., 11:55 a.m., and 4:20 p.m., on WMUK 102.1 FM, Southwest Michigan's NPR affiliate. I am the host of Between the Lines.
This week's guest: Kathleen McGookey.
Kathi McGookeyTo Kathleen McGookey, poetry is “a way to pay attention. Very close attention. To the smallest detail, the smallest moment.”Primarily a writer of prose...
by Zinta Aistarsfor WMUK 102.1 FMBetween the Lines i...
by Zinta Aistars
for WMUK 102.1 FM
Between the Lines is my weekly radio show about books and writers with a Michigan connection. It airs every Tuesday at 7:50 a.m., 11:55 a.m., and 4:20 p.m., on WMUK 102.1 FM, Southwest Michigan's NPR affiliate. I am the host of Between the Lines.
This week's guest: Kathleen McGookey.
Kathi McGookey
To Kathleen McGookey, poetry is “a way to pay attention. Very close attention. To the smallest detail, the smallest moment.”Primarily a writer of prose...
for WMUK 102.1 FM
Between the Lines is my weekly radio show about books and writers with a Michigan connection. It airs every Tuesday at 7:50 a.m., 11:55 a.m., and 4:20 p.m., on WMUK 102.1 FM, Southwest Michigan's NPR affiliate. I am the host of Between the Lines.
This week's guest: Kathleen McGookey.
Kathi McGookeyTo Kathleen McGookey, poetry is “a way to pay attention. Very close attention. To the smallest detail, the smallest moment.”Primarily a writer of prose...
February 28, 2015
Between the Lines: Challenging Amazon
by Zinta Aistars
for WMUK 102.1 FM
Between the Lines is my weekly radio show about books and writers with a Michigan connection. It airs every Tuesday at 7:50 a.m., 11:55 a.m., and 4:20 p.m., on WMUK 102.1 FM, southwest Michigan's NPR affiliate. I am the host of Between the Lines.
This week's guest: Jerry Dennis.
Dissatisfaction can lead to positive change. When Michigan nature writer Jerry Dennis became frustrated with online bookseller Amazon over its treatment of authors, he sat down...
for WMUK 102.1 FM
Between the Lines is my weekly radio show about books and writers with a Michigan connection. It airs every Tuesday at 7:50 a.m., 11:55 a.m., and 4:20 p.m., on WMUK 102.1 FM, southwest Michigan's NPR affiliate. I am the host of Between the Lines.
This week's guest: Jerry Dennis.
Dissatisfaction can lead to positive change. When Michigan nature writer Jerry Dennis became frustrated with online bookseller Amazon over its treatment of authors, he sat down...
February 25, 2015
Seniors are Clicking Their Heels Together: There’s No Place Like Home
by Zinta Aistars
Published at Golden Slippers Network
February 22, 2015
In the classic movie, Wizard of Oz, Dorothy clicks together the heels of her ruby red shoes and wishes herself home. In real life, most seniors make that same fervent wish.
“There’s no place like home,” says Kristin Kolasa, owner and founder of Kindred Spirits Senior Care. “That’s where people want to stay. Home is their place of comfort.”
Kindred Spirits Senior Care was established in 2011, Kolasa explains, in Nor...
Published at Golden Slippers Network
February 22, 2015
In the classic movie, Wizard of Oz, Dorothy clicks together the heels of her ruby red shoes and wishes herself home. In real life, most seniors make that same fervent wish.
“There’s no place like home,” says Kristin Kolasa, owner and founder of Kindred Spirits Senior Care. “That’s where people want to stay. Home is their place of comfort.”
Kindred Spirits Senior Care was established in 2011, Kolasa explains, in Nor...
February 23, 2015
Between the Lines: Literary Citizenship
by Zinta Aistars
Between the Lines is my weekly radio show about books and writers with a Michigan connection. It airs every Tuesday at 7:50 a.m., 11:55 a.m., and 4:20 p.m., on WMUK 102.1 FM, southwest Michigan's NPR affiliate. I am the host of Between the Lines.
This week's guest: Lori A. May.
Lori May
When Lori May moved from her native Canada to Detroit she became keenly aware of her need to be involved in her new literary community. May takes the responsibility of being wh...
Between the Lines is my weekly radio show about books and writers with a Michigan connection. It airs every Tuesday at 7:50 a.m., 11:55 a.m., and 4:20 p.m., on WMUK 102.1 FM, southwest Michigan's NPR affiliate. I am the host of Between the Lines.
This week's guest: Lori A. May.
Lori MayWhen Lori May moved from her native Canada to Detroit she became keenly aware of her need to be involved in her new literary community. May takes the responsibility of being wh...
February 16, 2015
Between the Lines: Poetry in Collision
by Zinta Aistars
Between the Lines is a weekly radio show about books and writers with a Michigan connection. It airs every Tuesday at 7:50 a.m., 11:55 a.m., and 4:20 p.m., on WMUK 102.1 FM, southwest Michigan's NPR affiliate. I am the host of Between the Lines.
This week's guest: Elizabeth Kerlikowske.
Retirement, Elizabeth Kerlikowske says with a grin, has her busier than ever, deep in art projects and encouraging other artists. A retired professor of English at Kellogg Community Col...
Between the Lines is a weekly radio show about books and writers with a Michigan connection. It airs every Tuesday at 7:50 a.m., 11:55 a.m., and 4:20 p.m., on WMUK 102.1 FM, southwest Michigan's NPR affiliate. I am the host of Between the Lines.
This week's guest: Elizabeth Kerlikowske.
Retirement, Elizabeth Kerlikowske says with a grin, has her busier than ever, deep in art projects and encouraging other artists. A retired professor of English at Kellogg Community Col...
