MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT

Category: Captivated

  • Find me, I’m here

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, May 2, 2019   I love surprises. I can’t say that I grew up with many of them, at least not the kind I’m talking about. We did have what I’ll call the Dictum/Surprise, which usually came down from on high (my father) and went something like this: “Rise and shine,…

  • Flash tale of a snowshoe hare

    Flash tale of a snowshoe hare

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, February 1, 2019   It’s late at night and we are driving down Dallas Divide, down a ribbon of highway into the valley, as we’ve all done a hundred times before, staring through the windows, alert for creatures. This is the place that feels most like a pure meditative state to those…

  • Satisfied and tickled, too

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, October 16, 2016 (last essay for this paper!)   The only fan letter I ever wrote was to the novelist, Tom Robbins. No eye rolling, please. It’s important to note that I happened to be working for his publisher in New York City at the time (1982), and I happened to be…

  • Bow tie

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, September 18, 2016   A near perfect September day, you know the kind. We are about to witness a young bride walk down a path lined in pinecones and dusted with rose petals, a pathway of lightly mowed weeds and grasses, nothing too civilized or slick — in fact, all of it…

  • Mutiny of the bounty

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, August 21, 2016   Just a couple of hours down the road, there is a sweet little shady honor-system fruit stand, where before me, on a spectacular August-ripe summer day, stands an all-white Australian shepherd, a dog standing so still there is nothing to do but reach down and pat it. Its…

  • Lessons from baseball?

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, May 29, 2016 Aside from hearing the cheers from the old Seattle Sicks Stadium (where Jimi Hendrix played in 1970) down the road a mile from the house I grew up in, I’ve only ever rubbed up against baseball a few times in my life. It just has not been part of the…