MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT

Tag: Mental Health

  • 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…

  • Stillness as medicine

    Telluride Times, Thursday, December 26, 2025 “The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.” – Rumi Remember, just a short time ago –15-20 years, say — when it was considered rude for someone to be talking on their cell phone at the grocery store? I specifically recall my own indignation when a…

  • After the fall

    Telluride Daily Planet, e-edition, Friday, November 7, 2025 He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring We have the privilege of living high in the mountains, where our fall season…

  • This isn’t about sugar

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, October 24, 2025 “I love to eat — Kit Kats or cookies-and-cream ice cream. I need sugar like five times a day.” — Kim Kardashian In college, about a million years ago, I distinctly remember a moment of flopping myself down on our senior house couch and peeling open a full-sized…

  • Pickle people

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, October 10, 2025 Even as a toddler, I loved pickles. In 1962, my family crossed the Atlantic on the SS United States, a sleek luxury liner that would take us to my father’s last tour of duty for the U.S. Army in France. And the story my mother told was that…

  • Wearable but not washable

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, September 26, 2025 We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature. — John Naisbitt In the 1970s, which seems almost like the Twilight Zone at this point, I’d often flip through the Seattle Times until I got to the “funnies” page…