MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT

Category: 2020

  • In search of lost aspens

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, June 3, 2020   High up in the mountains and deep in the woods on an essence-of-summer day, I stop in my tracks as Peter and the dog continue on ahead. There are no SUV’s on this particular road,  no bikes, or hikers, or ATV’s, or company of any kind. It’s…

  • Sunday’s (step)child

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, June 5, 2020   We all have our relationships with the seventh day of the week. And like so many things, how we did it as children probably forged how we do it (or don’t do it) today. Maybe you grew up staying in your polka-dot pajamas until noon on Sunday,…

  • Stopaholic

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, May 1, 2020   I’m not sure I ever really liked grocery shopping as we know it, but now, given a choice of the pick-up version or the masks-on version, any charm that it did have has pretty much dissipated.  I’m not saying I’m not grateful for having food, having the…

  • Close quarters

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, April 3, 2020   After my dad retired from the U.S. Army in the mid 1960s, he went to work for Boeing in Seattle, which was not an easy transition for an officer and a man like him. Less order, less control, more ambiguous freedom. I remember him coming home and…

  • Still face

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, March 5, 2020   Every March, when the world is born again, I feel compelled, like sap rising up my arm, to shoot a hand into the air, as if to ask some primal question, as if sitting in the first row of the classroom of life.  I don’t know if…

  • Dog drill sergeant

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, February 7, 2020   Where I left off regarding the new puppy was deep in reverie on all the positive feedback we humans never got enough of, and how, if only it had been there every step of the way like it should be for a dog, we might have a…