MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT

Category: How To

  • Smoking brain (it’s a good thing)

    Telluride Times, May 14, 2026 “Neuroplasticity is better than mind over matter. It’s mind turning into matter as your thoughts create new neural growth.” — Rudolph E. Tanzi Some months ago, I heard on a podcast by Andrew Huberman, the popular neuroscientist out of Stanford, that adult neuroplasticity—the brain’s ability to rewire itself—can be driven…

  • Rolling in the oats

    Telluride Times, April 30, 2026 “A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.”  – Samuel Johnson There’s this young guy on social media with a hefty following whose thing is oats. Oats as an ingredient, in oat bakes, oat breads, oat puddings, crackers, and everything you can…

  • That gut feeling

    Telluride Times, Thursday, January 22, 2026 My long and intimate history with fiber (you have one, too) goes way back to at least the 1970s, when a fiber revolution was underway and things like Kellogg’s (now Kellanova) All-Bran cereal and Metamucil canisters began appearing on Formica counters across the U.S. My dad—I’ve said this before—was…

  • Pickle people

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, October 10, 2025 Even as a toddler, I loved pickles. In 1962, my family crossed the Atlantic on the SS United States, a sleek luxury liner that would take us to my father’s last tour of duty for the U.S. Army in France. And the story my mother told was that…

  • Electrolyte-ness of being

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, August 29, 2025 “No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can’t find the point where these molecules became conscious.” — Deepak Chopra Post-military career and a layoff by the Boeing company in 1969, my father, a mechanical engineer by trade, decided…

  • 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…