Stephanie Griest

Stephanie Griest

  • Joined: January 15, 2025
  • Articles: 113

The Helmet Project

Exciting news: Visual artist Cindy Kane will be showing her wonderful "Helmet Project" at the Sherry Leedy Gallery in Kansas City starting tomorrow night. Here is a description of the show:

The Helmet Project evolved as a natural progression of Cindy Kane's respect for journalists and the desire to create a visual tribute to their work. Kane envisioned a memorial monument created by an installation circle of 50 used steel military helmets, suspended, floating in space, each a stand-in portrait for a specific journalist ...

Travels with Herodotus

Just finished reading my first book of the year -- Travels with Herodotus, by Ryszard Kapuscinski -- and I have to gush. Kapuscinski was the ultimate rock star foreign correspondent: He spent four decades reporting on riots, revolutions, and coups in Asia, Latin America, and Africa (surviving 40 jailings and four death sentences along the way).

Introducing: Around the Blog!

Hola everyone! I decided to use the publication of my new anthology, The Best Women's Travel Writing 2010: True Stories from Around the World (due out in February by Travelers' Tales) as a springboard for a new blog. I'm envisioning this as a place to share updates from the road as well as insights from contributors and compatriots. Comments are warmly welcome. Thanks so much for stopping by, and Happy 2010!