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Sandra Tsing Loh
American
Writer
Born:
Feb 11
,
1962
Life
Parents
School
Women
Work
You
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Approaching 50, I am living a life that is less sunlit Waldman/Chabon than tattered Charles Bukowski.
Sandra Tsing Loh
Life
Approaching
Living
Charles
Am
Than
Less
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
Good
Home
Parents
Tell
Statistics
Having
Almost
Household
Children
While
Us
Biological
Two
Some of us stay married because we're in competition with our divorcing 1960s and 1970s parents, who made such a hash of it. What looks appealing to us now, in an increasingly frenetic, digital world, is the 1950s marriage.
Sandra Tsing Loh
Marriage
World
Competition
Digital
Made
Parents
Increasingly
Digital World
Our
Hash
Married
Stay
Some
Looks
Because
Us
Who
Appealing
Now
With more women in power, the world would be better off.
Sandra Tsing Loh
Women
World
Better
Power
Would
Would-Be
More
Better Off
Off
While at a biological disadvantage in competitions, women - who even make trips to restaurant bathrooms in pairs - are at a clear advantage when it comes to grouping together and the activities that accompany it: gossiping, sharing, bonding, assisting, scrapbooking, and building networks.
Sandra Tsing Loh
Together
Women
Building
Restaurant
Trips
Networks
Disadvantage
Clear
Sharing
Advantage
Make
Accompany
While
Who
Grouping
Even
Pairs
Activities
Biological
Competitions
Assisting
Bonding
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 Hirshman.
Sandra Tsing Loh
Work
Women
Mind
Changing
Kind
Pretty
Had
Betty
Sure
Linda
Nor
Diapers
Sizes
We all fantasize about work that uses our creativity, is self-directed, happens during the hours we choose, and occurs in an attractively lit setting with fascinating people - you know, jobs like women have on TV.
Sandra Tsing Loh
Work
You
Women
Creativity
People
Setting
Our
Jobs
TV
About
Like
Hours
Know
Occurs
Lit
Happens
Fantasize
Choose
Uses
Fascinating
Work... family - I'm doing it all. But here's the secret I share with so many other nanny- and housekeeper-less mothers I see working the same balance: my house is trashed. It is strewn with socks and tutus.
Sandra Tsing Loh
Work
Family
Balance
Other
Strewn
Secret
See
Share
House
Nanny
Mothers
Doing
Same
Working
Many
Trashed
Here
Socks
The bad news in our most cosmopolitan and vibrant cities is that many middle-class people can no longer afford to live in 'middle-class' school districts.
Sandra Tsing Loh
News
People
School
Live
Our
Cities
Bad
Districts
Cosmopolitan
Bad News
School Districts
Longer
Most
Afford
Vibrant
Many
Typically, middle-class educated parents' search for their children's schools takes on the feel, if not of teen girls trying on different outfits, of adolescents trying on various selves.
Sandra Tsing Loh
Girl
Parents
Teen
Outfits
Adolescent
Various
Takes
Feel
Schools
Educated
Selves
Trying
Children
Different
Search
The terror of the ordinary is what keeps many affluent, educated parents and their kids out of the merely 'decent' schools, the ones that are simply 'fine.'
Sandra Tsing Loh
Parents
Kids
Out
Fine
Simply
Merely
Schools
Terror
Educated
Affluent
Decent
Ordinary
Many
Keeps
Oddly, in this age of the blinding white Oprah pantsuit, when everything is illuminated, it seems a Victorian lace curtain still hangs over the delicate womanly matter of our personal expenditures.
Sandra Tsing Loh
Age
Matter
White
Our
Everything
Seems
Delicate
Over
Blinding
Still
Oddly
Womanly
Oprah
Personal
Lace
Expenditures
Curtain
Victorian
Illuminated
Yes, I was one of the slightly vintage women who let out a shriek when we saw it at Costco: 'The Nancy Drew Mystery Stories', a complete boxed set, fifty-six familiar yellow spines, shrink-wrapped.
Sandra Tsing Loh
Women
Complete
Saw
Slightly
Out
Drew
Costco
Mystery
Nancy
Boxed
Yellow
Yes
Familiar
Stories
Who
Vintage
Set
In twenty-first-century America, our stories have become one and the same: we work to consume, we live to consume, we are what we consume.
Sandra Tsing Loh
Work
Become
Live
Our
Consume
America
Same
Stories
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