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 Copy Share Image
Typically, middle-class educated parents' search for their children's schools takes on the feel, if not of teen girls trying on different outfits,… — Sandra Tsing Loh Children 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 Copy Share Image
The very success of the modern American family - where kids get punctually to SAT-tutoring classes, the mortgage gets paid, the second-story… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
There's an image that some of us have of Jackie Onassis, stepping out in the rain, and Maurice Tempelsman is holding her… — Sandra Tsing Loh Image 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 find I'm the sort of harried working mother who has difficulty scheduling in a bit of rest amid the Ptolemaically complicated… — Sandra Tsing Loh 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 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 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 Bohemians 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
Recently it was pointed out to me - in a kind of hurtful way, to be honest - that people in Los… — Sandra Tsing Loh 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
We all fantasize about work that uses our creativity, is self-directed, happens during the hours we choose, and occurs in an attractively… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
I eye 'Modern Love' warily between that second and third cup of coffee on Sunday mornings, calculating how much of a push… — Sandra Tsing Loh Coffee 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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 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
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
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
