Approaching 50, I am living a life that is less sunlit Waldman/Chabon than tattered Charles Bukowski. — Sandra Tsing Loh Am Copy Share Image
“When you face writer's block, just lower your standards and keep going.” — Sandra Tsing Loh Writing Copy Share Image
It is during fertility that a female loses herself and enters that cloud overly rich in estrogen. — Sandra Tsing Loh Cloud Copy Share Image
I agree that mommy wars are not good for any mothers: that such wars are time and effort wasted. — Sandra Tsing Loh Effort Copy Share Image
Panic is efficient. Panic is effective. Panic is the way I get things done! Panic attacks are my booster rockets! — Sandra Tsing Loh Anxiety Copy Share Image
In our 20s, women in my generation, we all wanted to be Laurie Anderson. — Sandra Tsing Loh Anderson Copy Share Image
Our entire personality, our energy level, and how we cope is hormonal. — Sandra Tsing Loh Energy Copy Share Image
living in Los Angeles was like being an extra in a movie that was starring other people entirely. — Sandra Tsing Loh Extras Copy Share Image
Things need shaking up when American women feel endangered even as Yosemite bears lumber around belching, their eyes glazed with surfeit, their… — Sandra Tsing Loh American Copy Share Image
I don't know how it's going for my sisters, but as my 40s and Verizon bills and mortgage payments roll on, I… — Sandra Tsing Loh 1950s Copy Share Image
Having blown up my own long-term marriage via an extramarital affair, followed by a traumatic divorce, I tend to think of love… — Sandra Tsing Loh Fitness Copy Share Image
I think of the friends of mine who were blissfully single in their 20s and 30s. Still single in their 40s and… — Sandra Tsing Loh Friends Copy Share Image
I'd be lying if I claimed that, in spite of our amiable afternoons, I don't have an ache somewhere in my heart… — Sandra Tsing Loh Carnegie hall Copy Share Image
Very, very few adults possess so much charm that they can long be supported by another adult based on that attribute alone. — Sandra Tsing Loh Adult Copy Share Image
I think that in L.A., one thing that nobody will ever talk about is, for instance, how just one in five kids… — Sandra Tsing Loh City Copy Share Image
In twenty-first-century America, our stories have become one and the same: we work to consume, we live to consume, we are what… — Sandra Tsing Loh America Copy Share Image
My guitarist husband, Mike, and writer me are the old-fashioned kind of bohemians. Not 'fro-haired hipsters gyrating in iPod ads, but the… — Sandra Tsing Loh Dime Copy Share Image
The literature of menopause is the saddest, the most awful, and the most medical of all genres. You're sleepless, you're anxious, you're… — Sandra Tsing Loh Advice Copy Share Image
You go into the book store, there's the cut-out of Dr. Phil, and then the dreaded women's health section where every book,… — Sandra Tsing Loh Book store Copy Share Image
When husbands and wives not only co-work but try to co-homemake, as post-feminist and well-intentioned as it is, out goes the clear… — Sandra Tsing Loh Authority Copy Share Image
Recently it was pointed out to me - in a kind of hurtful way, to be honest - that people in Los… — Sandra Tsing Loh Asks Copy Share Image
In our youths, many of us suspected that being tied down to a partner and family might constrain us. But after 40,… — Sandra Tsing Loh Family Copy Share Image
Beating up on public schools is not just our nation's favorite blood sport, but also a favorite conversational entertainment of the well-off… — Sandra Tsing Loh Blood Copy Share Image
Although my life is far from perfect, the irony is that in a divorced parent's custody schedule - with days on and… — Sandra Tsing Loh Guilty Copy Share Image
It's not racism per se but the tyranny of normalcy - no: the tyranny of attractive normalcy. Which leads to loveable white… — Sandra Tsing Loh Attractive Copy Share Image
When faced with writer's block, lower your standards and keep going. — Sandra Tsing Loh Block Copy Share Image
The paradox is, I can't miss the good things about my father while he is alive, but I will of course miss… — Sandra Tsing Loh Alive Copy Share Image
When I think of Chinese parents, I think of people who weep upon hearing Beethoven, but who can't necessarily bring that joy… — Sandra Tsing Loh I think Copy Share Image
I really don't think our school system is an evil borg force. It's sort of like the government. It's not even efficient… — Sandra Tsing Loh Education Copy Share Image
I am a member of the 'sandwich' generation, that group that must simultaneously care for elderly parents and support children. — Sandra Tsing Loh Children Copy Share Image
In my case, when it arrived at 49, perimenopause was terrifying and like nothing I had ever before physically experienced. — Sandra Tsing Loh Before Copy Share Image
Work... family - I'm doing it all. But here's the secret I share with so many other nanny- and housekeeper-less mothers I… — Sandra Tsing Loh Balance Copy Share Image
