Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, September 14, 2014 We’ve had 8.5 human years together now; and though I do feel I’ve gotten to know you better, I still find you unpredictable and irritating. Therefore, I’d like to suggest we go over my rules. Again. That way, you won’t get all wound up about my alleged misbehavior and…… Continue reading Dear whatever your name is,
Category: 2014
Running with keys
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, August 31, 2014 I am standing on the steps of the Telluride Elementary School watching the six year old in our life step into the same classroom my 21-year-old daughter stepped into a dozen years back. It’s bumper cars on Memory Lane. Scanning the bare legs and big backpacks and worried expressions,…… Continue reading Running with keys
To bacon the dog: Verbing 101
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, August 17, 2014 “Come up into mountain pose, slowly rolling up one vertebra at a time, and then cactus your arms out as you go into mini-backbend.” Front range outdoor yoga instructor, August 10 Pursuant to a 10 a.m. class on the grass, I find cannot stop cactusing my arms, it feels…… Continue reading To bacon the dog: Verbing 101
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
Man cave meditation
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, July 20, 2014 For this one, sire, stay in bed.No one ever need know you are traveling within if you simply do not move before getting up. In fact, pretend you are still asleep. Breathe in, through the nose. You can feel the slow intake of air through your nose hairs. Nice…… Continue reading Man cave meditation
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
Michelle Curry Wright 