MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT

Category: Deep Stuff, Sort Of

  • Report from the front

    Telluride Times, Thursday, February 5, 2026 A little over a year ago, I wrote in this column that I had started volunteering with a text-only crisis line, a non-profit organization I’d read an article about and sensed might be a good fit for me. I took the 30-hour training and committed to 200 hours, or…

  • Healthy, stealthy and wise

    Telluride Times, Thursday, December 11, 2025 “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” –Jimi Hendrix Growing up, I loved this ‘70s TV show called Kung Fu, starring David Carradine as a Shaolin mixed-race monk returned from China to track down his half-brother in the American West. (It loses a bit in the translation.) Kwai-Chang Caine’s flashbacks featured…

  • Star bathing 101

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, September 12, 2025 “This is the first, wildest and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists and that it is built entirely out of attentiveness.” — Mary Oliver As a teenager growing up in Seattle, I was pretty unhappy, frankly, given the Catholic girls’ school, the rules in my father’s…

  • Digital freeze out

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, August 1, 2025 “We live in a digital world, but we’re fairly analog creatures.” –Omar Ahmad On a morning walk recently, and tuning into a health podcast I found at the last minute, what often happens with information happened again: The subject I’m interested in finds me, all algorithms aside. Though…

  • The best medicine

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, July 18, 2025 “Laughter is inner jogging.” – Norman Cousins You’re just not going to find too many people who will argue that laughter is not good for you. Maybe not a single person, or even a single grumpy person. I was thinking of my father — retired military man and…

  • Skin check

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, April 25, 2025 “The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.” – Mark Twain If those ads about crepey skin have started meaning something to you (or if you simply live here at altitude, no matter what your age), it could…