by Monica Wiant | Jun 29, 2006 | Uncategorized
I had a great doctor’s visit today. It looks like the potpourri of drugs have been doing exactly what they’re supposed to. My womb is a friendly, happy place, with one healthy little egg on its way to maturity.What does this all mean? I won’t be...
by Monica Wiant | Jun 25, 2006 | Uncategorized
Blame it on the hormones.On Tuesday, I started taking Drug #2 in my multi-phase pharmacopia of baby-producing wonder pills.By this time next week, I just might have a zygote in my possession.Or maybe not.Everything around me has taken on a new level of...
by Monica Wiant | Jun 14, 2006 | Uncategorized
In one of my future hypothetical realities, I write business books. Not technical trade manuals, but books about management. Books that help people motivate their employees.This genre is rife with wretched writing. (Has anyone actually read Who Moved My Cheese?...
by Monica Wiant | Jun 12, 2006 | Uncategorized
Around this time last year, Sam and I first agreed that we might possibly be almost kind of ready (more or less) to bring a new human being into the world.On paper, we seemed like the sort of people who could be reasonably successful at raising a child. Stable...
by Monica Wiant | Jun 7, 2006 | Uncategorized
Last week, my friends Adam and Bree got married.Here is a picture of the newlyweds sitting on a train in Ely, Nevada.The wedding took place the day before the train ride.It also occurred in Ely, Nevada.We did not travel there by train.We arrived by car, via Highway...
by Monica Wiant | May 28, 2006 | Uncategorized
There was a perfectly reasonable and scientific explanation for most of what happened to me last night. I’ll accept it for now.I returned from my business trip to an empty house. Nobody was waiting anxiously for my plane to land. Most of my friends were already...
by Monica Wiant | May 26, 2006 | Uncategorized
I have a confession to make. I love business trips.Among my contemporaries, it’s fashionable to complain about travel. Somehow, these complaints always strike me as overly affected.”Oh, mercy me! If I have to eat free room service salmon one more time, I...
by Monica Wiant | May 10, 2006 | Uncategorized
A few weeks ago:Monica: Would you be willing to sleep in McCarran Airport if it saves us $400 in air fare?Sam: What? Why?Monica: The flight from Fargo to Vegas gets in at 10:30 p.m.. That’s too late to catch a flight to Reno, but we could fly out the next...
by Monica Wiant | May 9, 2006 | Uncategorized
Unless tomorrow includes disasters of TV-movie proportions, I’m ready to declare successful completion of my best visit to Fargo since I moved to Nevada seven years ago.I’ll never forget the look on my mother’s face when she entered the Chinese...
by Monica Wiant | May 6, 2006 | Uncategorized
Tomorrow is my mother’s birthday. She will be 65.My mother has led an action-packed life. She grew up in Poland. She was a doctor. So was my dad. He posed as a spy so they could escape the Communists and build a better life for their kids.It sounds like a cheesy...
