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...
by Monica Wiant | Apr 30, 2006 | Uncategorized
I do not possess a green thumb.Gardening is one of those things that I’ve always wanted to be good at. There is something beautiful and poetic about putting something in the earth and watching it grow.Last summer, like every summer since I’ve lived in this...
by Monica Wiant | Apr 23, 2006 | Uncategorized
Yesterday, I spent the afternoon shopping with my friend Heather at the long-awaited and much hyped new mall in south Reno.For years, Reno only had one mall worth speaking of. I was excited to see some competition in the market, hoping that maybe – just maybe...
by Monica Wiant | Apr 20, 2006 | Uncategorized
I love small cars.I drive a Toyota Prius, and its four doors and moderately useful back seat just might qualify it as the largest car I’ve ever owned.I live in the part of the country where truck and SUV names come from (Sierra, Tahoe), so it can be kind of...
