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Pauline Wu

A Letter to Maddie for Mother’s Day

Dear Maddie,

May 15, 2021

A Letter to Maddie for Mother’s Day

May 15, 2021

Dear Maddie,

This is the story of your first year. Before the age of one, you lived through a pandemic and underwent open heart surgery. You were born…

Apr 12, 2021

Dear Maddie,

Apr 12, 2021

One year pandemic-versary

One year ago was the last time I dined in a restaurant. It was the last weekend of life as we knew it. But we didn’t know it then.

Mar 16, 2021

Mar 16, 2021

Thanksgiving 20/20

When I was growing up, Thanksgiving was hands-down my favorite holiday of the year. The table of food overfloweth and we got together with…

Nov 30, 2020

Thanksgiving 20/20

Nov 30, 2020

Printed nostalgia

Every morning I pick up my print copy of The SF Chronicle, and I read the headlines while I’m waiting for the SF Muni bus. Onboard, in a…

Sep 26, 2017

Printed nostalgia

Sep 26, 2017

Revisiting Kristi Yamaguchi & 90’s skating

Before there was Netflix or YouTube or hundreds of cable TV channels, there was primetime Olympic figure skating. Fame and the public eye…

Sep 4, 2017

Revisiting Kristi Yamaguchi & 90’s skating

Sep 4, 2017

Learning languages

There is a scene in the recent Wonder Woman movie in which the title character reveals that she speaks hundreds of languages. To prove it…

Jul 9, 2017

Jul 9, 2017

I hate you, exercise.

This title sounds pretty self-explanatory, I know.

May 6, 2016

May 6, 2016

Published in
Mad Frisco

Me and Snow

When I moved from the East Coast to California, I mourned the loss of “surprise snow.” There would be no more waking up and pushing the…

Jan 23, 2016

Jan 23, 2016

Pauline Wu

Pauline Wu

West Coast based. Foreign language enthusiast. Loves food, music, karaoke. East Coast roots. Proud Asian American.

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