MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT

Tag: writing

  • Coffee talk

    Telluride Times, July 9, 2026 “Police work wouldn’t be possible without coffee,” Wallander said.“No work would be possible without coffee.”They pondered the importance of coffee in silence.”― Henning Mankell My mother was a drinker of Sanka, the brainchild of a German coffee merchant who anecdotally stumbled upon the beginnings of the process of decaffeination in 1905…

  • Analog bags

    Telluride Times, June 25, 2026 “The digital world is a shadow of the real world.”— Jonathan Safran Foer In our region, it’s not uncommon in a museum or visitor’s center to see a medicine pouch in the life-sized dioramas section—a pouch usually containing some combination of prayer objects, sacred minerals like crystals, seeds, pigments, plants,…

  • Watering our roots

    Telluride Times, April 2, 2026 “When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man A couple of weeks ago, my daughter sent me a copy of a character assessment from her employer, adding that it was a routine occurrence and that the tools varied each time. She felt hers was spot…

  • Carrots and bananas — and bacon

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, June 20, 2025 “If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.” — Jon Krakauer Pretty much every time I go to the grocery store, I am grateful for two organic items that remain inexpensive and are a staple in our household: carrots and…

  • Vision quest

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, June 6, 2025 “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” – Helen Keller Traveling recently, I saw something in an airport bathroom that got my attention. It was one of those moments: you see something and you wonder why you’ve never tried it, you give…

  • Curation inflation

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, May 23, 2025 “We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think.” — Buddha In 1974, the book most often seen in the halls of my Catholic girls’ high school — invariably wrapped in brown paper — was The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty. Reading as we walked from…