MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT

Category: Detox, people!

  • Keep calm and keep moving

    Telluride Times, Thursday, January 8, 2026 At some point in his life, my father — or Lt. Colonel Dad, as I am calling him now — decided it was “unladylike” to do sports. So, right about the time it mattered most to my body, my brain, and my hormones — and under added pressure to…

  • 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…

  • This isn’t about sugar

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, October 24, 2025 “I love to eat — Kit Kats or cookies-and-cream ice cream. I need sugar like five times a day.” — Kim Kardashian In college, about a million years ago, I distinctly remember a moment of flopping myself down on our senior house couch and peeling open a full-sized…

  • Vision quest

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, June 6, 2025 “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” – Helen Keller Traveling recently, I saw something in an airport bathroom that got my attention. It was one of those moments: you see something and you wonder why you’ve never tried it, you give…

  • Curation inflation

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, May 23, 2025 “We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think.” — Buddha In 1974, the book most often seen in the halls of my Catholic girls’ high school — invariably wrapped in brown paper — was The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty. Reading as we walked from…

  • Cognitive overload

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, April 11, 2025 “I use journaling as a tool for organization, stress reduction and clearing my head.” — Tim Ferriss I have been thinking hard about certain aspects of mental health. Mine, yours, all of ours. How do we floss our brains the same way we floss our teeth — to…