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“That future boom, boom, boom…”
Telluride Daily Planet, Saturday, November 12, 2011 MCW: [crossing herself] Bless me father, for I have sinned. It’s been, um, 35 years since my last confession. Father: Welcome back, my child. And it’s 36, actually. But who’s counting? MCW: Oh. Well, [sound of fidgeting] where to start, right? Disrespectful thoughts about my parents when they…
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Adventures in neuroplasticity! (featuring Max)
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 —…
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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…
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Apples (my father’s dream)
Telluride Daily Planet, Thursday, September 15, 2011 After 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…
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Guided meditation (for when your child goes off to college)
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, August 28, 2011 Sit 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…
MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT 