Outdoor Adventures

Outdoor Adventures in Michigan

This last year has been one for the books. We’ve all spent a lot of time at home with our families, adjusting to work from home life, and probably the worst of all, homeschooling. The list goes on when you try to describe 2020. But, we’ve learned to balance our new way of living and remain positive through it all. …

Enjoy Winter in Lansing

Fun Ways to Enjoy Winter in Lansing

Are you the type of person that puts up their holiday tree and decorates the house on November 1? Do you love Christmas music and snow? Are you always the first to get festive for the holidays? Maybe you are the complete opposite and hate the holidays and snow? Either way you’re in Michigan so you more than likely love …

Brand Messaging that Resonates

Finding the Good

A few months back, I sat anxious and nervous in my office on a sunny spring afternoon, the lights were off, and I couldn’t help but continue to tap my pen on my desk while I pondered a decision I really didn’t want to make. It was a Friday that I will never forget. The Friday I had to tell …

Photoshoot Spots

Photoshoot Spots: Lansing Edition

Over the past few months I have been taking photos for Michigan Creative’s new website (coming soon!) and have been taking each person on staff to a location of their choosing for their photos. Between these shoots, my own freelance shoots, and just shooting for fun while I lived in the Lansing area, I have found quite a few really …

Cinnamon Rolls

Michigan’s Top 5 Cinnamon Rolls

One of my top missions in life, besides creating high quality video and photo material, is to find the best cinnamon roll in Michigan. Each place I travel to, I visit a popular bakery in that city and try their cinnamon rolls. In case you were on a similar mission, I decided to provide you with my Top 5.  1. …

Dog-Friendly Workplaces

Dog-Friendly Workplaces: Are There Benefits?

Dog-friendly workplaces are becoming more common nowadays as owners start to take their furry children with them everywhere. Studies have confirmed benefits of bringing a dog to work. I can say first hand: bringing my puppy to work makes the day a lot less stressful.  According to an article on Purina’s website, spending as little as 30 minutes with a …

Lansing’s Potential

Lansing’s Potential: An Outsider’s Perspective

It was a late February evening and while I’m no stranger to the winter weather, having grown up in Central Pennsylvania, I sure wasn’t ready for Michigan. It was snowing sideways… literally sideways and I thought to myself, “This is a joke, right?” Well, here we are the snow subsided, I’ve had a chance to explore a bit, and my …

Blogging Business CMS

Writing isn’t dead, and you should be doing it

Lately, social media is all about photos, video, and reaching your followers and consumers with relatable, visually aesthetic content. Just by that description, writing doesn’t often fit the bill. But why is that? It’s been thought that writing and creating content to be read is becoming less and less popular – dying, even. Unless you live under a rock, you’ve …

Food Health Plate

Take note of these back to back national days: Mental Health Day & Depression Screening Day

Every single day seems to be a national day for something, except these two are important. You may not be aware of it, but yesterday, October 10th was National Mental Health Day. It was posted about all over social media, creating awareness for mental health, and resources too. Just about every influencer and many people on social media had something to …