MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT

Category: Do For Love

  • 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…

  • Bow tie

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, September 18, 2016   A near perfect September day, you know the kind. We are about to witness a young bride walk down a path lined in pinecones and dusted with rose petals, a pathway of lightly mowed weeds and grasses, nothing too civilized or slick — in fact, all of it…

  • Mutiny of the bounty

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, August 21, 2016   Just a couple of hours down the road, there is a sweet little shady honor-system fruit stand, where before me, on a spectacular August-ripe summer day, stands an all-white Australian shepherd, a dog standing so still there is nothing to do but reach down and pat it. Its…

  • RDHTMOM meditation

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, May 15, 2016 Recent sighting: a little red Chevy with the license plate RDHTMOM. Behind the wheel is a 40-something brunette with a medium bob and bangs. Take a deep breath as you grip the steering wheel, and squeeze hard, hard as you can. Harder. Harder still. Aaaaand release. Feel the blood flow…

  • Tiny buds

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, May 1, 2016 Five years ago today, my husband died. My daughter was about to graduate high school, turn 18, go off to college and start her life. She had weathered his diagnosis of melanoma and seen him through 17 months of struggle and regimen, pain and hope. She had weathered my moving…

  • Cat interpreter

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, March 20, 2016 Wills, our willful orange tabby who just turned ten, has an interspecies interpreter at home. That would be me. I am the language specialist who delivers in English what this feline is “thinking” — or whatever crazy, mixed-up thing it is they do with their 30 grams of gray…