Zinta Aistars's Blog, page 27
May 1, 2013
Huffington Post Picks Up Article #3
Confections with Convictions: Kalamazoo Chocolatier Hires Youth with Criminal Records to Make Truffles
Published in Huffington Post, April 23, 2013
Photography by Erik Holladay, erikholladay.com
My third article is picked up by Huffington Post, first published in Southwest Michigan's Second Wave Media. I couldn't be more pleased. Dale Anderson is a good man doing a good thing, and it's all wrapped up in chocolate. This is how to handle rising crime. Let people work once they've done their...
Published in Huffington Post, April 23, 2013
Photography by Erik Holladay, erikholladay.com My third article is picked up by Huffington Post, first published in Southwest Michigan's Second Wave Media. I couldn't be more pleased. Dale Anderson is a good man doing a good thing, and it's all wrapped up in chocolate. This is how to handle rising crime. Let people work once they've done their...
April 30, 2013
The Smoking Poet Launches Spring 2013 Issue
The Smoking Poetwww.thesmokingpoet.com "Words that turn the page to flame"
Pages of Decomposition by Ladislav HankaThe hours move quickly, and they accumulate. Hours become days, days become weeks, months, years, and then, we are looking at a lifetime. What have you accomplished in yours? How do you use your time? In spring 2013, a group of artists and writers gathered in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and, under the direction of Sydnee Peters, created art around the concept of Hours. The res...
April 26, 2013
Much more than vegetables grow at Sprout Urban Farms
by Zinta Aistars
Published in Southwest Michigan's Second Wave Media
April 25, 2013
JEREMY ANDREWS, CEO OF SPROUT URBAN FARMS WITH EMPLOYEES REBECCA SPICER, LEFT, AND DEVON GIBSON, RIGHT, INSIDE THEIR GREENHOUSE IN BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN. - ERIK HOLLADAY
A community gathering to talk about ways to improve life where they live led to organizing a farm in the city. Zinta Aistars has the story of Sprout Urban Farm.
It's a staff meeting. Let's face it: staff meetings usually inspire yawns, doodles on...
Published in Southwest Michigan's Second Wave Media
April 25, 2013
JEREMY ANDREWS, CEO OF SPROUT URBAN FARMS WITH EMPLOYEES REBECCA SPICER, LEFT, AND DEVON GIBSON, RIGHT, INSIDE THEIR GREENHOUSE IN BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN. - ERIK HOLLADAYA community gathering to talk about ways to improve life where they live led to organizing a farm in the city. Zinta Aistars has the story of Sprout Urban Farm.
It's a staff meeting. Let's face it: staff meetings usually inspire yawns, doodles on...
April 24, 2013
BabyQ Raises IQ for Pregnant Women
by Zinta Aistars
Published in Grand Rapids' Rapid Growth Media
April 25, 2013
EMILY GOSTINE BRANN WANTS TO HELP MAKE SMARTER MOTHERS. - ADAM BIRD
When Dr. Mark Gostine, MD found out his daughter Emily was expecting her first child, healthy pregnancies became an interest of his. This interest sparked babyQ, a website and mobile app dedicated to helping mothers have the healthiest pregnancies -- and babies -- possible.
Finding out she was pregnant with her first child came as a shock to Emily Brann....
Published in Grand Rapids' Rapid Growth Media
April 25, 2013
EMILY GOSTINE BRANN WANTS TO HELP MAKE SMARTER MOTHERS. - ADAM BIRDWhen Dr. Mark Gostine, MD found out his daughter Emily was expecting her first child, healthy pregnancies became an interest of his. This interest sparked babyQ, a website and mobile app dedicated to helping mothers have the healthiest pregnancies -- and babies -- possible.
Finding out she was pregnant with her first child came as a shock to Emily Brann....
April 20, 2013
The Sisters Kalamazoo Take On New York, Part II
by Zinta Aistars
Continued from Part I
Sitting on our Brooklyn stoop
My sister Daina and I were on a trip to New York City -- my business trip for a work assignment, with my sister tagging along for good company and to occasionally take over as photographer, freeing my hands to take notes for the articles I would be writing.
On this first morning in Brooklyn, however, we were tourists. One of my assignments would begin in the evening, but for much of the day, we were free to explore New York City...
Continued from Part I
Sitting on our Brooklyn stoopMy sister Daina and I were on a trip to New York City -- my business trip for a work assignment, with my sister tagging along for good company and to occasionally take over as photographer, freeing my hands to take notes for the articles I would be writing.
On this first morning in Brooklyn, however, we were tourists. One of my assignments would begin in the evening, but for much of the day, we were free to explore New York City...
April 11, 2013
Looking for Truffle? Confections With Convictions
by Zinta Aistars
Published in Southwest Michigan's Second Wave Media
April 11, 2013
Dale Anderson at Confections with Convictions (Photo by Erik Holladay, eholladay.com)
Dale Anderson wanted to help youth and adults with convictions by teaching them building trades skills. He ended up teaching them how to make truffles. Zinta Aistars has the story on how he made that leap at Confections with Convictions. (Photos by Erik Holladay)
Two women in uniform enter the store on 116 West Crosstown Park...
Published in Southwest Michigan's Second Wave Media
April 11, 2013
Dale Anderson at Confections with Convictions (Photo by Erik Holladay, eholladay.com)Dale Anderson wanted to help youth and adults with convictions by teaching them building trades skills. He ended up teaching them how to make truffles. Zinta Aistars has the story on how he made that leap at Confections with Convictions. (Photos by Erik Holladay)
Two women in uniform enter the store on 116 West Crosstown Park...
April 8, 2013
The Sisters Kalamazoo Take On New York, Part I
by Zinta Aistars
Turnpike 80
My days of working in communications at Kalamazoo College some years ago were rich with travel, perhaps the best part of my job there, and I thought my business trips were over now that I am full-time freelance ... but I was offered a trip to New York City to do an interview for the alumni magazine, and I grabbed the chance.
I invited my sister Daina to come along for the adventure. "The Sisters Kalamazoo," Stephen M. would later name us, introducing us to everyone t...
Turnpike 80My days of working in communications at Kalamazoo College some years ago were rich with travel, perhaps the best part of my job there, and I thought my business trips were over now that I am full-time freelance ... but I was offered a trip to New York City to do an interview for the alumni magazine, and I grabbed the chance.
I invited my sister Daina to come along for the adventure. "The Sisters Kalamazoo," Stephen M. would later name us, introducing us to everyone t...
March 31, 2013
On the eve of a trip to New York
by Zinta Aistars
Easter is fading fast. Tomorrow is April 1. And, no April fooling, I am up early and packing my bags, heading out on a road trip to New York City for the next week.
I used to love such business trips. I've been sent on similar work assignments criss-crossing the country, hitting 49 of our 50 states. I have always loved to travel, indeed, hungered for it, wanderlusting for ... ah yes, Home. The place that would hold me. I didn't quite realize that was my driving force unti...
Easter is fading fast. Tomorrow is April 1. And, no April fooling, I am up early and packing my bags, heading out on a road trip to New York City for the next week.
I used to love such business trips. I've been sent on similar work assignments criss-crossing the country, hitting 49 of our 50 states. I have always loved to travel, indeed, hungered for it, wanderlusting for ... ah yes, Home. The place that would hold me. I didn't quite realize that was my driving force unti...
March 30, 2013
Z Acres Easter, 2013
by Zinta Aistars
Although I am now into the very beginning of my second year at Z Acres, my 10-acre farm in southwest Michigan, this is my first Easter here. All these many years, the family has gathered in Chicago for our holidays. My sister and brother-in-law have a wonderful and large home, many guest bedrooms and lots of space to take us all in, and my brother-in-law has been our gracious chef through all those many Easters, Thanksgivings, Christmases ... but at last, I get to take on my s...
Although I am now into the very beginning of my second year at Z Acres, my 10-acre farm in southwest Michigan, this is my first Easter here. All these many years, the family has gathered in Chicago for our holidays. My sister and brother-in-law have a wonderful and large home, many guest bedrooms and lots of space to take us all in, and my brother-in-law has been our gracious chef through all those many Easters, Thanksgivings, Christmases ... but at last, I get to take on my s...
March 23, 2013
Z Acres: Year One
by Zinta Aistars
Walking Z Acres with Guinnez, early morning of 3.23.13
I woke early. Very early, considering that I no longer use an alarm clock and haven't for many months. I sleep until I have slept enough, and that is just one of the many joys of living here, at Z Acres, a 10-acre century-old farm in southwest Michigan. I woke with the first thought in my mind being that this was my anniversary.
No, not wedding anniversary. Those belong in my previous life, and I have to say that back in tha...
Walking Z Acres with Guinnez, early morning of 3.23.13I woke early. Very early, considering that I no longer use an alarm clock and haven't for many months. I sleep until I have slept enough, and that is just one of the many joys of living here, at Z Acres, a 10-acre century-old farm in southwest Michigan. I woke with the first thought in my mind being that this was my anniversary.
No, not wedding anniversary. Those belong in my previous life, and I have to say that back in tha...
