Judy Epstein

Judy Epstein

378 Articles

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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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: 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: 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: Watching out for trouble in tech city

I knew something was wrong; I just didn’t know how much. I was on a very fast open boat, zooming up

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A Look on the Lighter Side: Great debates, chapter 2

A giant tea cup woke me up the other morning, demanding equal time in the Tea versus Coffee debate.  “You’re

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A Look on the Lighter Side: What successful people do before breakfast

I was dashing past an airport bookstore last week, when this title caught my eye: “What the Most Successful People Do

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A Look on the Lighter Side: After attack, a census-taking of the heart

On Friday morning, I was arguing with my computer, trying to get it to change its tab settings; wrestling with

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A Look on the Lighter Side: We’re ready for our close-up, Roadshow!

I am fascinated by the Antiques Roadshow on Public Television.   That’s because the objects run an amazing gamut, from hideous

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A Look on the Lighter Side: Good reasons to forget Valentine’s Day

I’ll just come out and say it: I hate Valentine’s Day.   I have no use for it. As far

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A Look on the Lighter Side: What we say to teens, and what they hear

One of my favorite Gary Larson cartoons is titled “What we say to dogs.”  It shows a man scolding his

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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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