by Charli Mills | Feb 28, 2016 | Memoir & Times Past
Standing in the grocery aisle I stare helplessly at bright plastic containers labeled with biblical promises to remove my stains. Nearing the half century mark and I still have no idea how to do laundry properly. Women’s work. Historically this is true. Soiled...
by Charli Mills | Jan 11, 2016 | Memoir & Times Past
Generation X, Rural Northern California Foam-edged waves pushed kelp across wet sand. I don’t recall the waves at Monterey Beach (California) being big or crashing. My focus was on the semi-circles of water that glided toward my yellow rain-boots (or were they...
by Charli Mills | Oct 24, 2015 | Memoir & Times Past
Half way up the narrow strip of road that winds in and out of carved gullies, I realize what determination miners have. Already we’ve forged access into a deep draw in the Cabinet Mountains of northern Idaho, following tens of thousands of years behind the wake...
by Charli Mills | May 20, 2015 | Memoir & Times Past
Hard places are universally known. The teacher put on the spot by a parent; the childhood friend who died too young; the ailing family member; the medical condition that won’t go away; roadblocks and stream-blocks; abandoned buildings and glimpses of earlier...
by Charli Mills | Dec 1, 2014 | Memoir & Times Past
Over the years I’ve been involved in interviews on both sides of the table. I’ve had terrific coaching from a wonderful HR manager, yet nothing comes to mind worthy of a story when I think of interviews I’ve conducted. There were the oddballs like...
by Charli Mills | Oct 25, 2014 | Memoir & Times Past
If you are a child of the late 70s and early 80s then you must have photographic evidence of a bad hair day. I have evidence of ferociously faulty fashion sense induced by mixed media influences. (This photo is what you get when you watch Little House on the Prairie...
