MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT

Category: Captivated

  • Fly by

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, July 6, 2014 The 4th of July Thunderbirds usually get me thinking – as I get all choked up — about graduation from college, and about the sheer, welling gratitude in my heart that my father did not make me apply to the Air Force Academy the first year women were to…

  • Don’t spare me the details

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, December 1, 2013 Hey, just in case. In case I get up in the morning already chomping at the number one task on the number one list, already back in last night’s thoughts, the ones sputtering like grease in a pan before I drift off to sleep. In case I forget…

  • Top Dog, Badger, Bluebird and the sneeze

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, July 7, 2013 Once upon a time in July, in a valley nearly identical to this one, Prairie Top Dog sat balanced on his hind legs, spine straight, ears pricked up, darting eyes surveying things — notably the impressive number of dome and rim craters he and his fellow dogs had recently…

  • Hooked on Mnemonics

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, June 23, 2013 Her name is Gloria. But I’m so preoccupied with the freckle above her lip, I only grasp her name for a half second, the length of real-time it takes three syllables to get lost in the serpentine chutes of my ear canals instead of arriving at the consecrated…

  • Coyote, Auntie Fox, and the Camelback

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, June 9, 2013 Once upon a time, in a valley almost identical to this one, there lived a coyote, a resplendent specimen of shiny silver fur and long slender feet. Coyote happened to have an aunt in retail, a small but bossy red fox who liked to nag him about fine…

  • Batmandu

    Telluride Daily Planet Sunday, November 4, 2012 I believe I am the one who initially sees potential sparks between the Pocahontas and Batman figurines. My daughter Celine, 6 at the time, giggles at the idea. Batman is so flex-jointed, inaccessible and dark. Pocahontas is so … half-naked. Even so, she stares at the two plastic…