Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, October 16, 2011 Max, a calico guinea pig, was adopted as the family pet circa 1968, a few years after we lost the wildly likeable white rabbit we called Mr. K. I still don’t know how on earth my father, a military man, conceded to the string of non-traditional pets —…… Continue reading Adventures in neuroplasticity! (featuring Max)
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Friends don’t let friends play Words with Friends (It’s addictive)
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, October 2, 2011 It’s not like I didn’t grow up playing board games. Scrabble, Monopoly, Parcheesi, Battleship, Mastermind, Numble, RSVP, Risk, Stratego, Trouble, Connect Four, Facts in Five. My mother — and sole opponent — was also my personal trainer in the formative crossword years.Any real instinct to play, however, has long…… Continue reading Friends don’t let friends play Words with Friends (It’s addictive)
Apples (my father’s dream)
Telluride Daily Planet, Thursday, September 15, 2011After dad retired from the Army, he got a job at Boeing. I’m not sure exactly what he did there, but he got laid off along with everyone else in Seattle in the early ‘70s, and, to my mother’s great surprise, became a permanent fixture in the house after…… Continue reading Apples (my father’s dream)
Guided meditation (for when your child goes off to college)
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, August 28, 2011Sit comfortably on planet Earth, which is nestled quietly among the more than 300 billion stars in its galaxy and swathed by an interstellar medium of gas, dust and cosmic rays. Your eyes are closed, palms facing upward. No one is looking at you. No one cares what you…… Continue reading Guided meditation (for when your child goes off to college)
Deer-ly beloved: more backyard interviews
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, August 14, 2011 MCW: [sneaking up, broom raised] Ha! I knew it! You again. Backyard Deer freezes mid-chew, staring straight ahead. MCW: Look at this devastation! All my hanging strawberry tendrils, and all the pansies. Gone. Backyard Deer’s right nostril inadvertently flares. MCW: Puh-lease. Spare me the frozen act, and the…… Continue reading Deer-ly beloved: more backyard interviews
Sink or Swim
Telluride Daily Planet, Tuesday, July 26, 2011 Amid recent personal upheaval and loss, I have spent days and weeks sifting through papers, photos, memorabilia, searching for things I cannot find, among them a set of Xeroxes of photos of my family boarding a ship. The original photos, sent to a glossy magazine in the mid-‘90s…… Continue reading Sink or Swim
Michelle Curry Wright 