MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT

Category: Older Better Wiser hahaha

  • Stuff

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, November 9, 2014 It’s 1963 and we’ve started acquiring stuff, antiques mostly, because my father is newly infatuated and obsessed. A Pennsylvania boy by birth, he has unexpectedly made a French girl into a war bride and adopted a new country, replete with mind-blowing food, rich history and beautiful objects (which have…

  • Gratitude meditation

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, October 26, 2014 “In positive psychology research, gratitude is strongly and consistently associated with greater happiness. Gratitude helps people feel more positive emotions, relish good experiences, improve their health, deal with adversity, and build strong relationships.” Harvard Health Publications, Harvard Medical School. “Furthermore, feelings of gratitude directly activated brain regions associated with…

  • Hot blood in the summertime

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, June 22, 2014 It’s 1971. Summer is so inconceivably, relentlessly simple. Once the last bell of the last class rings, and the middle-school warzone, temporarily peace-treatied, recedes from view, a mental movie screen begins at once to unfurl, to slowly reveal the simple title of this particular movie, in 4,000 pt…

  • Dear Mr. Fireman,

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, January 26, 2014 Fire!!! Yes, I have written about hot flashes before but that was then and this is now, and I’m screaming Help! at the top of my lungs and waiting for the fire department to come and put them out. Permanently, this time. Because I am a burning building…

  • #trending = #theoppositeofsimple

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, January 12, 2014 It’s 1970. Jimi Hendrix has recently played Sick’s Stadium in Seattle (about a mile and a half from my childhood home), but this is not what has rocked my world. Not Hendrix (who dies later in the year) or The Who or The Doors or Black Sabbath or…

  • Snafu

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, November 17, 2013 It is nearly midnight and you have just arrived in New York City. It’s your first day of vacation, and your first vacation in a long time. The approach, right over the city, is unbelievable — lights for miles in the crystalline black of night, Manhattan Island like…