Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, March 25, 2012 It is 1983 and hot, sticky summertime in New York, and the six-person ad agency where I work is empty except for me, the girl who answers the phone, buys radio time and waits for ad copywriting scraps like a dog on its hind legs. When the front…… Continue reading Rudraksha
Category: Deep Stuff, Sort Of
Sink or Swim
Telluride Daily Planet, Tuesday, July 26, 2011 Amid recent personal upheaval and loss, I have spent days and weeks sifting through papers, photos, memorabilia, searching for things I cannot find, among them a set of Xeroxes of photos of my family boarding a ship. The original photos, sent to a glossy magazine in the mid-‘90s…… Continue reading Sink or Swim
I scream, you scream, we all scream for primal scream
Telluride Daily Planet, Tuesday, September 14, 2010 A recent fling with bicycle riding has left me feeling euphoric and impervious to injury of late, which is a dangerous state in the world of exercise, anyone here can tell you that. After hard rides (for a 50-something), I come home coasting on endorphins, and the thought…… Continue reading I scream, you scream, we all scream for primal scream
Echo Park, Los Angeles, April 2010
Telluride Daily Planet, Tuesday, April 20, 2010 Reality is the light and fluffy topic of the day here in LA with my friend Dave, 10 years free and clear of Telluride, an Angeleno by birth returned successfully to his proper place in the universe. And according to Dave, at the end of the red-sunned day,…… Continue reading Echo Park, Los Angeles, April 2010
A Ten-Bird Guide to Time 2010 Wall Calendar
Telluride Daily Planet, Wednesday, December 30, 2009 The winter solstice has teetered, a new year is on its way, and that means palettes of shrink-wrapped calendars will soon be handed out like Bingo cards to all of us, the day-trippers of time. There must be other people out there like me, yearning for something completely different:…… Continue reading A Ten-Bird Guide to Time 2010 Wall Calendar
Winds That Blow Through Us
Telluride Daily Planet, Thursday, September 24, 2009 Fall, 2003. “This time of year, Colorado is quite spectacular. We have aspen trees swathing the hillsides doing what they do best: quaking and turning yellow. My mom talked about aspens the way she talked about lilacs — with the sort of awe reserved for exotics — plants that…… Continue reading Winds That Blow Through Us
Michelle Curry Wright 