MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT

Category: Captivated

  • Dzubble dzutch

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, February 21, 2016 Dear 11-year-old self, I’m writing you a letter about jumping rope — double Dutch, to be exact. It’s something I’ve been thinking a lot about the last 10 years, for whatever reason. Yes, 10 years. They go by fast. I have not been cogitating on jump rope, but rather I’ve…

  • Seminal. Summer. Vacation.

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, July 12, 2015 By the time I turn 11, half of our household has left — one for school, one to get married and one to join the Air Force — and I’m all alone with my mother and father in the four-story, 5,000 square foot house I still dream about, perched above…

  • The Bear, the Man, and Blueberry Manna (a fable)

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, May 31, 2015 Part 2 (In part one, Alonzo, an unconscious and mean-spirited bear loses his already failing sight and finds himself an object of derision from the very woodland creatures he had relentlessly tortured. He is about to give up hope when a stranger, Florentine, appears, offering the starving bear kindness… and…

  • The Bear, the Man, and Blueberry Manna (a fable)

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, May 17, 2015   Once upon a time, in a forest just beyond the deepest of the deep lakes, lived an old man named Florentine and a black bear with cataracts in his eyes. This is the story of how Florentine came to save Alonzo the bear, save him from all the…

  • 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,…

  • 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…