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Sandra Tsing Loh

American Writer

Born: Feb 11, 1962

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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, instead of the menopause book with the fanged Medusa head on the cover that might be more pertinent, you always see a flower and a poppy and a daisy and a stethoscope. Sandra Tsing Loh

Health You Women Book Every Flower Book Store Section Dreaded See Menopause More Head Instead Always Go Cover Where Store Might Then Pertinent Poppy Dr Daisy Phil

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 fat, you're depressed - and the advice is always the same: take more walks, eat some kale, and drink lots of water. It didn't help. Sandra Tsing Loh

You Water Advice Walks Sleepless Eat Some Menopause More Drink Take Saddest Most Genres Always Lots Same Anxious Literature Depressed Help Medical Awful Fat

I am stricken with the peculiar curse of being a 21st-century woman who makes more than the man she's living with - first with a husband for 13 years and now with a new partner. Sandra Tsing Loh

Man Woman Husband First Partner Living Stricken More New She Makes Am Years Than Being Curse Who Now Peculiar

In the 'Mad Men' era, the archetypal dad came home; put down his briefcase; received pipe, Manhattan, roast beef, potatoes, key-lime pie; and was - apparently - content. Sandra Tsing Loh

A deep river of must-have school mania runs through the chattering classes. There is, of course, the parental adrenaline rush at suburban cocktail parties that comes from announcing one's son or daughter as an Ivy Leaguer. Sandra Tsing Loh

Son School Daughter Cocktail Runs Classes Rush Parental Adrenaline Through Chattering River Announcing Parties Course Ivy Mania Suburban Deep

Things need shaking up when American women feel endangered even as Yosemite bears lumber around belching, their eyes glazed with surfeit, their pelts covered in Oreo crumbs. Sandra Tsing Loh

Eyes Women Shaking Bears Crumbs Feel Around Covered Up Endangered American Yosemite American Women Even Lumber Things Need

Having blown up my own long-term marriage via an extramarital affair, followed by a traumatic divorce, I tend to think of love as less a gently glowing hearth than a set of flaming train tracks you strap yourself onto. Sandra Tsing Loh

Love You Marriage Yourself Own Think Followed My Own Having Tend Onto Divorce Long-Term Tracks Gently Glowing Affair Up Train Than Hearth Blown Via Flaming Less Traumatic Set

I will never do Pilates. I walk. Sandra Tsing Loh

Walk Will Never Pilates

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

You Girl Before Menopause Return Were Same Where Your Levels

My generation is so used to having our public spaces look like the Starbucks, with the beautiful lighting and the little bit of Nina Simone and my coffee that's blended a certain way from Costa Rica. Sandra Tsing Loh

Beautiful Generation Coffee Nina Nina Simone Our Way Bit My Generation Costa Rica Having Lighting Blended Like Look Spaces Public Little Little Bit Certain Used Certain Way Starbucks

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 enough to be a borg of total evil, even if it wanted to be. Sandra Tsing Loh

Government School Evil Think Enough Our System Total School System Like Force Sort Efficient Wanted Really Even

I am shamed to realize that in my marriage, my daughters never heard their father and me fight, which also meant, perhaps, that we didn't truly communicate. Sandra Tsing Loh

Me Fight Marriage Communicate Father Daughters Shamed Never Perhaps Also Am Heard Truly Which Realize Meant

In our youths, many of us suspected that being tied down to a partner and family might constrain us. But after 40, even that landscape starts to shift. Many singletons turn inward and start longing for the things so many of us longed to be free of in our 20s. Sandra Tsing Loh

Journalists are quite surprised outside their dinner parties when they hear where I live. 'Van Nuys? You still live there?' It is like saying you're from Alabama. Sandra Tsing Loh

Saying You Dinner Live Van Dinner Parties Outside Journalists Like Parties Still Surprised Hear Quite Where Alabama

I think my father, who was Chinese, basically felt if we didn't major in science, we would starve on the streets, so we all went into science unquestioningly. I kind of faked my way through physics. Sandra Tsing Loh

Science Physics Father Think Starve Way Kind Would Through Major Felt Chinese Who Streets Basically

I think private school is much better at customer service and making the parents feel better, especially in Los Angeles. It's almost like a spa for the parents where you drop your kids off, where they give you a beautifully baked thing and let the parents write their own newsletter about global warming. Sandra Tsing Loh

Service You Better School Parents Drop Own Think Kids Angeles About Give Write Almost Feel Like Global Baked Global Warming Beautifully Making Los Los Angeles Private Off Private School Where Customer Customer Service Warming Much Your Thing

I think live music is really, really important. And I think it's very important to do together. It's much more fun to play to music together than the one person listening to their lone iPod Shuffle. I think it's an amazing way to build community and have children do things that are funded that's not a videogame. Sandra Tsing Loh

Music Together Amazing Listening Important Build Community Live Think Way Lone More iPod Very Than Person Children Much Really Fun Live Music Play Shuffle Things

Although my life is far from perfect, the irony is that in a divorced parent's custody schedule - with days on and days off - instead of like it was before, when I felt ragged and still oddly guilty all the time, now I feel guilty but not ragged. Sandra Tsing Loh

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