by Paula Wagner | Feb 10, 2019 | General
EXCERPT: This journey begged the question once again: where did I belong? Where was home? Perhaps I wasn’t charting my own course after all. Maybe I was simply following in my mother’s footsteps by leaving her, just as she had left her own mother to come to America....
by Paula Wagner | Feb 9, 2019 | General
Greetings for the the Lunar New Year – also known as Chinese New Year, the Tet Festival (in Viet Nam) and the Spring Festival! Celebrations well under way throughout China, Southeast Asia and the of course, the San Francisco Bay Area where I live. This...
by Paula Wagner | Jan 31, 2019 | General
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anaïs Nin As East coast and Midwestern Americans huddle in the grip of sub-zero temperatures, I feel (almost) guilty for enjoying a balmy breeze on...