MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT

Category: How To

  • Gum chain

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, March 1, 2015 If you Google “guy who lived in the Alaskan wilderness for 30 years,” Dick Proenneke’s name and website will pop up and you’ll go, “That’s him!” And then you’ll see the name of the video and you’ll go check it out again from the library and you’ll watch it…

  • Life hacks 501

    published in the Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, February 1, 2015   I have a life hack of my own, something I will share with you in a moment. For those of you who don’t know, a life hack is a solution to an everyday problem — a gizmo, a workaround, a MacGyver, a light bulb on…

  • Waiting room

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, January 18, 2015 I am sitting in the latest version of the waiting room at the dealership, a place I’ve been many times before in my three decades of Subarus. I’ve taken several leaves of absence. I’ve left happy, I’ve left mad and even vowed never to return. And yet here I…

  • Between rooms 3 and 4

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, December 7, 2014 Dear Mr. Security Guard at MOMA, I really don’t know how you do it, standing in a doorway between two rooms as the hordes mill by, firing off their three questions — Can I take a picture, Where are the restrooms, and Which way to the Matisse cutouts. Sometimes…

  • Size matters

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, October 12, 2014 In Brazil, a country known for its fine leather footwear, the national shoe is actually the rubber flip-flop. Chinelos. Never having been a huge flip-flop fan, I do nevertheless arrive unintentionally prepared with a pair of rubber flip-flops, in navy and white striped soles. I buy my first new…

  • Reverse psychology

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, December 29, 2013 You. Yes, you. You are no longer allowed to have New Year’s resolutions, by decree of the highest court in the land, signed and dated this 29th day of December, 2013. It is expressly forbidden and punishable by law. So don’t even try. When the ball drops and…