Judy Epstein

Judy Epstein

378 Articles

A Look on the Lighter Side: The ‘early adopter’ can get the worm

 There’s usually one in every crowd; you probably know one. They’re always showing off the latest gadget, be it a

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A Look on the Lighter Side: The Night Owl’s Lament

I used to be a night owl.  I started in elementary school. By high school, I was an old hand

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A Look On The Lighter Side: It started with a phone number

I was filling out the paper work for my son’s junior prom and realized that I had put something odd

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A Look on the Lighter Side: The perils of movie-going

When you only go out to the movies once every other year, the stakes are high.  Still, we had no

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A look on the lighter side: All you need is love, and bread, and milk

I can’t afford another snowstorm.  Every time one is announced, I run right out and spend myself into oblivion.  I

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A look on the Lighter Side:

So Jeff Bezos wants Amazon to start delivering packages by drone.  Never mind that the very meaning of the word

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A look on the lighter side: Kick the bucket list, chuck-it instead

The New Year is upon us, and there’s an important question I must ask you: Have you written your Chuck-It

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A Look On The Lighter Side: Whose fault is it anyway?

Carpooling home through my neighborhood, a few years ago, I noticed our car parked in front of a stranger’s house. 

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On The Lighter Side: When the frost bites, the cradle may fall

Last week’s weather was so ferocious, the report could have been delivered by King Lear, straight out of Shakespeare:  “Blow,

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A Look On The Lighter Side: A visit to Downsize Abbey

An invitation came in the mail, the other day.  It read: The Dowager Duchess of Downsize Abbey requests your assistance.

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A Look on the Lighter Side :A day in the land of ambiguity

I woke up this morning when the alarm went off.  It went on and on; it almost drove me crazy,

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A look on the Lighter Side: This is the end…or is it?

The television blared, “Tune in again next week for the final episode of….” “No!” I shrieked, leaping up off the

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A Look on the Lighter Side: My midnight Valentines and companions

When you are lying sleepless in bed in the middle of the night, alone in a snoring house with your

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A Look on the Lighter Side: Dreams of a complaint-free world

My teenage son and I had just come in from shoveling snow – for the millionth time.  “So much snow!”

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A look on the lighter side: Taking the grandest of tours

Once upon a time, wealthy aristocrats sent their young people on a Grand Tour around Europe: to mature, acquire culture,

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