MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT

Category: How To

  • 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…

  • Hooked on Mnemonics

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, June 23, 2013 Her name is Gloria. But I’m so preoccupied with the freckle above her lip, I only grasp her name for a half second, the length of real-time it takes three syllables to get lost in the serpentine chutes of my ear canals instead of arriving at the consecrated…