MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT

Category: Older Better Wiser hahaha

  • 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…

  • Annotations of a life wish (from the poem by Nadine Stair)

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, March 3, 2013 If I had my life to live over (which I do, really, every time I roll out of bed onto a new day, every time I open a door, a portal, or even the tiny box on my dining room table I keep absolutely nothing in, every time…

  • Assorted cream-filled resolutions

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, January 6, 2013 Life is not at all like a box of chocolates, because if you’re clever you do know what you’re going to get. In that box. Or there might be a diagram. Anyway, right now life is a box of chocolates to give up. I’m done. The holidays are…

  • Field trip with elevator

    Telluride Daily Planet,  Sunday, October 21, 2012 Circa 1972, my father decides that the three of us (my mom and I — the rest in college) are going on a field trip to visit a wheat farming family in eastern Washington. He has read of an exchange program and wants to go since he has…

  • Drive-in delirium

    Telluride Daily Planet Sunday, September 2, 2012 My father, a ramrod army man, says No to me so many times growing up that at some point each time, I simply stop asking. I stop asking to be a patrol in elementary school, which is something I want so bad I dream the wood handle is…

  • Heat, love, and lies

    Telluride Daily Planet Sunday, July 8, 2012 Summer, 1978. Our neighbor in Seattle, a prominent physician, has just called in a favor and arranged for me to intern in D.C. with one of our state representatives, someone he has pulled a fistful of strings for without ever asking for anything in return. As it happens,…