MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT

Category: Captivated

  • 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…

  • 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…