MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT

Category: 2026

  • In the dark together

    Telluride Times, September 3, 2026 I grew up with a hard-ass military father, which for the most part meant the kids were not allowed to do anything that qualified as fun. Concerts, camp, dating before the age of 16, whatever: forget about it. In the summer of 1971, however, at the age of 13, I…

  • Days that sizzled

    Telluride Times, August 20, 2026 “The month of August had turned into a griddle where the days just lay there and sizzled.”– Sue Monk Kidd, author My daughter reminded me the other day that in the olden and golden days of her youth (90s and 2000s), after doing the Montrose shopping run in the summer,…

  • The air we breathe

    Telluride Times, August 6, 2026 For the majority of my life, I have lived in clear, clean air in two basic flavors, low humidity and high. That being said, during a couple of four-year stints when I was young, I breathed very badly polluted air on a regular basis.  In Southern California in the late…

  • Coffee talk

    Telluride Times, July 9, 2026 “Police work wouldn’t be possible without coffee,” Wallander said.“No work would be possible without coffee.”They pondered the importance of coffee in silence.”― Henning Mankell My mother was a drinker of Sanka, the brainchild of a German coffee merchant who anecdotally stumbled upon the beginnings of the process of decaffeination in 1905…

  • Analog bags

    Telluride Times, June 25, 2026 “The digital world is a shadow of the real world.”— Jonathan Safran Foer In our region, it’s not uncommon in a museum or visitor’s center to see a medicine pouch in the life-sized dioramas section—a pouch usually containing some combination of prayer objects, sacred minerals like crystals, seeds, pigments, plants,…

  • Birding for health

    Telluride Times, June 11, 2026 “There is an unreasonable joy to be had from the observation of small birds going about their bright, oblivious business”― Grant Hutchison, Recently someone somewhere wrote that at a certain point your adult life, you will start to notice birds. if this has not happened yet to you, it still may.…