MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT

Category: Tough Times

  • Report from the front

    Telluride Times, Thursday, February 5, 2026 A little over a year ago, I wrote in this column that I had started volunteering with a text-only crisis line, a non-profit organization I’d read an article about and sensed might be a good fit for me. I took the 30-hour training and committed to 200 hours, or…

  • Sneaky snack attacks

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, January 17, 2025 “My favorite snack would have to be Fritos, no doubt about it. Fritos and mayonnaise. I know. Really healthy, isn’t it?” — Sylvester Stallone Sometimes, when I see a bag of Fritos, I find myself just reaching for it. Listen, I rationalize, they’re old school (1961, but actually…

  • Stresslaxing (Yes, it’s a thing)

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, September 27, 2024 “For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.” — Lily Tomlin Growing up, I don’t remember much relaxing around our house. Honestly, there was my mom smoking and listening to Mozart, which was the closest thing she had to a daily mindfulness meditation. And I can recall exactly one image…

  • Stopaholic

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, May 1, 2020   I’m not sure I ever really liked grocery shopping as we know it, but now, given a choice of the pick-up version or the masks-on version, any charm that it did have has pretty much dissipated.  I’m not saying I’m not grateful for having food, having the…

  • Close quarters

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, April 3, 2020   After my dad retired from the U.S. Army in the mid 1960s, he went to work for Boeing in Seattle, which was not an easy transition for an officer and a man like him. Less order, less control, more ambiguous freedom. I remember him coming home and…