Judy Epstein

Judy Epstein

378 Articles

A Look On The Lighter Side: When you need a little help navigating life

“I think you need an app,” the person told me. “A nap? Do I look sleepy?” I replied. “No, I

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A Look on the Lighter Side: New policy a prescription for disaster

Here’s a prescription for anyone using prescription medication: Fasten your seat-belt, it’s going to be a bumpy year. New York

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A Look on the Lighter Side: Once upon a time … with tech support

Everyone’s a critic — and when you’re a writer, you encounter too many of them before you even leave the

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A Look on the Lighter Side: Empty nest? What empty nest?

All year, since our youngest went off to college, people have been asking my husband and me how we like

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A Look on the Lighter Side: Shopping lists of the ancient world

It’s not every day that shopping lists are reported in the New York Times, but it’s not every day that

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A Look on the Lighter Side: Two diplomas, one attic — and 40 years

I was at the picture framing shop, having a crisis.  “I’m not sure I can go through with this,” I

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A Look on the Lighter Side: A Dream-Team for Mother’s Day

I nominate Mother’s Day as “most exasperating holiday” in the entire year. Whether you are trying to plan something for your

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A Look on the Lighter Side: There’s just something about that voice

A friend of mine was reaching for her iPhone, about to activate Siri, when someone said, “Gee. What if we called

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A look on the lighter side: Double trouble and then some with drones

Pity the poor drone operator!   One drunken idiot crashes his drone into the South Lawn of the White House

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A Look on the Lighter Side: What, me worry? Of course, I can

Recently, a radio reporter asked someone who used the Harlem-Hudson Line if he would ever again consider riding in the

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A Look on the Lighter Side: Is there hope for the laundry-hampered ?

I hate doing laundry. Every time I take something out of the dryer, I get depressed:  there’s the same tomato

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A Look on the Lighter Side: Newspaper person with no nose for news

Working in and around journalism for more than 30 years, I’ve learned a few things.   One is that there

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A Look on the Lighter Side: Judy versus the bureaucracy, yet again

I love a good bureaucracy as much as the next person, which is to say, not at all.  And I yield

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A Look on the Lighter Side: Job interviews and how to survive them

This is graduation season — which means that the job interviewing season has already begun.  I regret that I don’t

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A Look on the Lighter Side: Which one will we feed? Fear or unity

Just as I embarked on writing this week’s column, I heard the news of yet another atrocity — the worst

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