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…… Continue reading Eating dirt
Category: Nature, Make Me Your Humble Servant
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…… Continue reading In search of lost aspens
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,…… Continue reading Dog whisperer
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…… Continue reading Bud vase diaries
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…… Continue reading Onion skins
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…… Continue reading Sea-green helmets
Michelle Curry Wright 