Approaching 50, I am living a life that is less sunlit Waldman/Chabon than tattered Charles Bukowski. — Sandra Tsing Loh Am Copy Share Image
While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good. — Sandra Tsing Loh Best Copy Share Image
Many men today can cook, or at least order takeout, and know where and how to hire domestic help, perhaps with refreshing… — Sandra Tsing Loh Clarity Copy Share Image
I am stricken with the peculiar curse of being a 21st-century woman who makes more than the man she's living with -… — Sandra Tsing Loh I am Copy Share Image
I cohabited for 20 years with my longtime husband and father of my two now-teen daughters in a stable family household. — Sandra Tsing Loh Children 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
If I was going to pretend to be the supermom next door, it would've been counterfeit and a lie. I figured I… — Sandra Tsing Loh Door 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 Diapers 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
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
Oddly, in this age of the blinding white Oprah pantsuit, when everything is illuminated, it seems a Victorian lace curtain still hangs… — Sandra Tsing Loh Age 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
My sister is not my mother, but more than anyone else, she fills that role for me now - like it or… — Sandra Tsing Loh More Copy Share Image
“When you face writer's block, just lower your standards and keep going.” — Sandra Tsing Loh Writing 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
Menopause is your return to where you were before, when your hormone levels are the same as a pre-adolescent girl's. — Sandra Tsing Loh Girl Copy Share Image
In the end, we all want a wife. But the home has become increasingly invaded by the ethos of work, work, work,… — Sandra Tsing Loh End 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
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
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
Whether you wish to chant 'Our houses, our selves' or 'We have houses, hear us roar,' for us women, home is where… — Sandra Tsing Loh Heart Copy Share Image
We women make the lion's share of household purchases in this country. We ourselves drive billions of dollars a year in sales. — Sandra Tsing Loh Country Copy Share Image
