Author: currywright

Peabody, here

Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, August 3, 2014 We’re in the staff cafeteria (Enders Hall) of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in the ghost town of Gothic right outside Crested Butte where we are having lunch. Beef brisket sandwiches with barbecue sauce, a substantial salad bar, and, astonishingly, fresh cream puffs filled with chocolate crème patissière for…… Continue reading Peabody, here

Fly by

Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, July 6, 2014 The 4th of July Thunderbirds usually get me thinking – as I get all choked up — about graduation from college, and about the sheer, welling gratitude in my heart that my father did not make me apply to the Air Force Academy the first year women were to…… Continue reading Fly by

Hot blood in the summertime

Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, June 22, 2014 It’s 1971. Summer is so inconceivably, relentlessly simple. Once the last bell of the last class rings, and the middle-school warzone, temporarily peace-treatied, recedes from view, a mental movie screen begins at once to unfurl, to slowly reveal the simple title of this particular movie, in 4,000 pt…… Continue reading Hot blood in the summertime

Captain’s Log

Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, June 8, 2014 Enterprise, Stardate: 42073.1 Recent days have spawned at outbreak of what ship’s science staff are calling “nostalgia” – for lack of a more precise definition. (Can one call it nostalgia if one has not ever experienced it in the first place? Lieutenant Commander Data posits that in the…… Continue reading Captain’s Log

It’s moving me

Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, May 25, 2014 My mother loved to tell people how good it felt to finally settle into our Seattle house after having moved 11 times in 17 years. Not just because of the house, whose mahogany doors and brass fixtures I still dream about. But because, as the wife of an…… Continue reading It’s moving me