MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT

Category: Captivated

  • Fight for light

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, November 22, 2024 I don’t know the precise science behind the effects of holiday lights on the human brain, but this time of year, I know it’s more than just early Christmas displays that get me veering toward ropes and ropes of tiny bulbs that hold the promise of more sparkles…

  • Starting now: Idle a while

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, January 18, 2024 “The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.” Sydney J. Harris The summer after college graduation, I moved to New York from the family home in the Northwest to start a new life. I decided to go via Canadian Pacific Railway, coach class, which…

  • 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…