MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT

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  • Electrolyte-ness of being

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, August 29, 2025 “No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can’t find the point where these molecules became conscious.” — Deepak Chopra Post-military career and a layoff by the Boeing company in 1969, my father, a mechanical engineer by trade, decided…

  • 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…

  • The best medicine

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, July 18, 2025 “Laughter is inner jogging.” – Norman Cousins You’re just not going to find too many people who will argue that laughter is not good for you. Maybe not a single person, or even a single grumpy person. I was thinking of my father — retired military man and…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Just don’t do it

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, January 3, 2025 My New Year’s Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.” -Nia Vardalos Last week, the vet strongly recommended that our Corgi be put on a diet, something we feared since the breed is known, if left unattended, for eating themselves…