MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT

Elegy

Telluride Daily Planet Sunday, September 16, 2012 Dear Tooth Fairy, I’m going the public route with this letter — since I doubt you’d think to look for one under my pillow — even if I had a tooth to include with it. I’ll say right up front, though, that I tend to see your mission…

September 15, 2012
Drive-in delirium

Telluride Daily Planet Sunday, September 2, 2012 My father, a ramrod army man, says No to me so many times growing up that at some point each time, I simply stop asking. I stop asking to be a patrol in elementary school, which is something I want so bad I dream the wood handle is…

September 2, 2012
Rapt, wrapped, rapped

Telluride Daily Planet Sunday, August 19, 2012 The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is…

August 18, 2012
How to capture a woman (with or without a butterfly net)

Telluride Daily Planet Sunday, August 5, 2012 First of all forget everything you thought you knew about women. When you and your friend were talking in a bar last night, and you told him you that you were sick of trying to figure women out and that if they couldn’t like you for exactly who…

August 4, 2012
Heat, love, and lies, Pt. 2 (Obsession)

Telluride Daily Planet Sunday, July 22, 2012 The other thing that happens in D.C. the summer of my 20th year — in addition to losing 1) my heart and 2) my faith in the system — is that the East Coast parents of a sophomore who has been stalking me (there is no better word)…

July 21, 2012
Heat, love, and lies

Telluride Daily Planet Sunday, July 8, 2012 Summer, 1978. Our neighbor in Seattle, a prominent physician, has just called in a favor and arranged for me to intern in D.C. with one of our state representatives, someone he has pulled a fistful of strings for without ever asking for anything in return. As it happens,…

July 8, 2012

2012, Deep Stuff, Sort Of