I have to say that through out my life a third party has never worked. My sister Julia Willebrand helped start the Green Party. She ran for mayor of NYC on the Green ticket in 2000 ..Ralph Nader ran on it for President. I'm a life long democrat but of course I voted for my sister. She also ran for comptroller and got 100,000 votes. I hav…

You don’t expect a grocery list to break your heart. Until it does.

I was filling shelves in the baking aisle, when I noticed her—an elderly woman clutching a handwritten grocery list that looked like it had been folded and unfolded a hundred times.

She kept glancing at it, then at the shelves, then back at it—like the list itself might change if she stared at it long enough.

I asked if she needed help, and she gave a small, tired smile.

“Oh, I do,” she said. “But it’s silly.”

I assured her it wasn’…