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
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
It is during fertility that a female loses herself and enters that cloud overly rich in estrogen. — Sandra Tsing Loh Cloud Copy Share Image
“When you face writer's block, just lower your standards and keep going.” — Sandra Tsing Loh Lower Copy Share Image
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 faced with writer's block, lower your standards and keep going. — Sandra Tsing Loh Block 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
Our entire personality, our energy level, and how we cope is hormonal. — Sandra Tsing Loh Energy Copy Share Image
Yes, I was one of the slightly vintage women who let out a shriek when we saw it at Costco: 'The Nancy… — Sandra Tsing Loh Mystery Copy Share Image
In the end, the real wisdom of menopause may be in questioning how fun or even sane this chore wheel called modern… — Sandra Tsing Loh End Copy Share Image
I think my father, who was Chinese, basically felt if we didn't major in science, we would starve on the streets, so… — Sandra Tsing Loh Father Copy Share Image
I'm pretty sure that changing diapers of all sizes isn't the kind of women's work Betty Friedan had in mind, nor Linda… — Sandra Tsing Loh Changing Copy Share Image
I'm a journalist, so my friends are journalists: magazines, newspapers, even public radio. Nobody had their kids in public school. — Sandra Tsing Loh Even Copy Share Image
In the 'Mad Men' era, the archetypal dad came home; put down his briefcase; received pipe, Manhattan, roast beef, potatoes, key-lime pie;… — Sandra Tsing Loh Beef Copy Share Image
The bad news in our most cosmopolitan and vibrant cities is that many middle-class people can no longer afford to live in… — Sandra Tsing Loh Bad Copy Share Image
In 1900, the average life expectancy of a US citizen was 48, so most menopausal women were dead, which is not a… — Sandra Tsing Loh Age life Copy Share Image
I think private school is much better at customer service and making the parents feel better, especially in Los Angeles. It's almost… — Sandra Tsing Loh Better 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 Divorced Copy Share Image
Struggling with my finances, nudging toward 50, I sometimes daydream about being happily married to a matching frugaholic husband in a matching… — Sandra Tsing Loh About 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
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
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
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
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
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
In our 20s, women in my generation, we all wanted to be Laurie Anderson. — Sandra Tsing Loh Anderson Copy Share Image
Journalists are quite surprised outside their dinner parties when they hear where I live. 'Van Nuys? You still live there?' It is… — Sandra Tsing Loh Alabama 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
Some of us stay married because we're in competition with our divorcing 1960s and 1970s parents, who made such a hash of… — Sandra Tsing Loh Competition 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
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
