MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT

Category: How To

  • Smoothalicious

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, July 5, 2024 Growing up, we had the three standard universal kitchen appliances of the time: the toaster, the blender and the stand mixer – well, not counting the “roaster,” essentially a piece of furniture you could wheel around and roast a large turkey in. I loved that thing. Throughout my…

  • Eating dirt

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, June 7, 2024 There was a story circulating in our family that my paternal grandmother, who died of complications of diabetes, used to eat dirt as some sort of health remedy. After my father died years later, my 60-something mother told me and my husband after dinner that she herself had…

  • Spice dump

    Spice dump

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, May 24, 2024 Growing up, there was a single spice rack screwed onto our apricot-colored kitchen wall, the same kind virtually every family in our neighborhood had in the 60s and 70s, with a set of 12 spices that never seemed to diminish over the course of many years, including things…

  • Close quarters

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, April 3, 2020   After my dad retired from the U.S. Army in the mid 1960s, he went to work for Boeing in Seattle, which was not an easy transition for an officer and a man like him. Less order, less control, more ambiguous freedom. I remember him coming home and…

  • Dog drill sergeant

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, February 7, 2020   Where I left off regarding the new puppy was deep in reverie on all the positive feedback we humans never got enough of, and how, if only it had been there every step of the way like it should be for a dog, we might have a…

  • Mr. Clean, explain thyself

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, April 4, 2019   It’s spring, and the smell of chemicals is in the air. From a visceral place located deep within baby boomers’ brains (the olfactory bulb of the limbic system), Mr. Clean’s face pops to mind, his smiling eyes, bald head, hoop earrings, crossed arms and fiercely positive demeanor. It’s…