by Monica Wiant | Sep 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
When I visit a place from my past, I always carry two questions: What has changed? What remains the same?This week, I’m in Fargo. So I asked.My high school now has a water slide, but the strange dome on top of the building remains.The building across the street,...
by Monica Wiant | Sep 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
The summers of my childhood were LONG. I remember a vast expanse of hot days stretched out before me, wide open and full of boredom and wonder. I explored the woods behind my house. I played Atari and watched Nickelodeon and worked on jigsaw puzzles. I went...
by Monica Wiant | Jul 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
We did it.The Wiants drove from Minnesota to Washington, DC and home again. We did it without catastrophe: no accidents or speeding tickets, no burglaries or natural disasters. We avoided being those people walking to the service station for a can of gas (that was me...
by Monica Wiant | Jul 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
We drove 600 miles today and are more than halfway home.It was not a very exciting day.We had our first Waffle House experience, we saw a couple of possibly Amish families riding horse-drawn buggies across bridges, and we accidentally visited Cuyahoga National Park as...
by Monica Wiant | Jul 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
Our last morning with the cousins was bittersweet.We persuaded the kids to pose nicely for some photos.We recreated a group shot from 5 years ago, when William and Evie were still relatively new to the world.And then we let everyone loose for a dance party.If the...
by Monica Wiant | Jul 27, 2013 | Uncategorized
We’ve been in DC long enough where we’re starting to figure things out. Sort of.We can navigate the Metro with a fair level of competence. We have learned that nobody eats dinner before 7, and the liquor stores close at 10. We might try to navigate our way...
