MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT

Category: Now vs Then

  • Days that sizzled

    Telluride Times, August 20, 2026 “The month of August had turned into a griddle where the days just lay there and sizzled.”– Sue Monk Kidd, author My daughter reminded me the other day that in the olden and golden days of her youth (90s and 2000s), after doing the Montrose shopping run in the summer,…

  • Digital freeze out

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, August 1, 2025 “We live in a digital world, but we’re fairly analog creatures.” –Omar Ahmad On a morning walk recently, and tuning into a health podcast I found at the last minute, what often happens with information happened again: The subject I’m interested in finds me, all algorithms aside. Though…

  • Watermelon weather

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, July 4, 2025 “Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.” – Sam Keen We didn’t eat that much watermelon, growing up. In the upper left corner of the U.S. map in the 60s and 70s, it just wasn’t as hot as it has been recently; one year, in fact, I remember…

  • Holiday superpowers

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, December 20, 2024 “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” – Albert Einstein Almost 40 years ago during off-season, before it was monitored or had many — if any — rules or restrictions as a climbing area, we pulled into the Indian Creek Campground, about three hours…

  • Fiber fan club

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, October 25, 2024 “Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.” — Erma Bombeck There was an iconic moment 28 years ago, as the mother of a toddler, when I witnessed a parent friend hand her two kids under…

  • Dragons and heroes

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, April 26, 2024 “In a ruined and toxic future…” — Apple TV promo for a new series “We’re our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.” — Tom Robbins In my 20s, I worked in the rights department (sales of excerpts, quotes, cover art,…