Category: 2011

  • Fur checks with Santa

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, December 18, 2011 Santa: [answering phone, already annoyed] Blitzen, stop pestering me about the formation, would you? It’s a year ending in 1, and you’re behind Comet. Period. [pauses] You listening? MCW: Hello, um, is this Santa??? Santa: [pauses] Who is this? How did you get this number? MCW: I got…

  • Rock, paper, scissors, hair

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, December 4, 2011 I am standing, scissors in hand, poised and inches away from my sister’s thick hardly-gray-even-though-she’s-ten-years-older tresses, thinking about gene puddles and the great wagon wheel of karma. Joelle and I, though we have identical voice registries and laugh at the same time at the same jokes, look not…

  • “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…

  • All saints, all souls, all seekers

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, October 30, 2011 It is the Day of the Dead. And. Although I say a prayer for the souls who have passed over, who are no longer with us as we knew them – while I am saying a prayer for peace and momentum on their untethered and zero-gravity journeys, wading…

  • 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 —…

  • 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…