March 27 through the end of April which is when I’m updating this, Sunday April 30th 2023, was a virtual roller coaster ride of emotions, health, productivity affecting my life personally and professionally and that is something I’m normally really good at keeping separate. But sometimes a few weeks take its toll on even the strongest of us. The run off election was coming Tuesday April 4th and both Amy and I were optimistic. We had even planned on watching the results together after work Brandon Johnson broke out the race card in the final stretch while our candidate Paul Valls took the high road, one which in this case wasn’t the honorable thing to do, at least when you consider Chicago and how deeply racially divided the media and social media keeps things.
What follows is the good, the bad and the ugly. Real life can sometimes be that way.