MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT

Category: Deep Stuff, Sort Of

  • Lab results

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, August 16, 2024 “Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.”  This one gets a little personal.  About a year ago, I was asked to take a specific genetic test on account of a sibling having tested positive and gone through a challenging year…

  • Dragons and heroes

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, April 26, 2024 “In a ruined and toxic future…” — Apple TV promo for a new series “We’re our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.” — Tom Robbins In my 20s, I worked in the rights department (sales of excerpts, quotes, cover art,…

  • Still face

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, March 5, 2020   Every March, when the world is born again, I feel compelled, like sap rising up my arm, to shoot a hand into the air, as if to ask some primal question, as if sitting in the first row of the classroom of life.  I don’t know if…

  • Tiger paws

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, June 7, 2019   Sinking down in a theater seat and waiting for the lights to fall, I turn to my neighbor to the right, a middle-aged woman — like me — wearing a cowboy hat and fuchsia sweater. Her vibe is open, the kind of open that might lead to…

  • Day of the Dead — and of the Living

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, November 2, 2018   In Santa Fe just last weekend for a visit with friends, my husband and I are lucky enough to have it all: sweet October warmth, blue sky, the coziness of all that adobe and the golden cascade of leaves coming down like coins as we stroll along. Not…

  • 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…