MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT

Category: Nature, Make Me Your Humble Servant

  • 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…

  • In search of lost aspens

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, June 3, 2020   High up in the mountains and deep in the woods on an essence-of-summer day, I stop in my tracks as Peter and the dog continue on ahead. There are no SUV’s on this particular road,  no bikes, or hikers, or ATV’s, or company of any kind. It’s…

  • Dog whisperer

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, December 6, 2019   Last time I had an actual puppy in my life, I was 12. All the siblings had already graduated from high school, and it was just me and the ’rents in a big and overly quiet house. I don’t remember much about having Arbie as an 8-week-old,…

  • Bud vase diaries

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, November 1, 2019   Three days before my French aunt Bibiche’s (Bee-beesh) 95th birthday recently, I remembered that I’d forgotten it (again), and that (again) it was too late to send a card or letter or anything that would show care, appreciation, forethought and good manners, the kind she had and…

  • Onion skins

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, October 4, 2019   One of my favorite quotes of all time is actually from Ernest Hemingway: “The hardest thing about writing [or painting, for that matter] is that first you have to clean the refrigerator.” Brilliant. Because for some of us, before doing anything that requires use of the creative…

  • Sea-green helmets

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, September 6, 2019   By far, the two most important and far-reaching things we did this summer were tiny in the enormous scheme of it all: We spent $8 and got a hummingbird feeder, like millions of other people before us; and we borrowed “Devotions” by the poet Mary Oliver from…