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...
