‘You fall, you get up, you carry on’: Michelle Obama shares tools she learned from her father promoting new book at Chicago Theatre

Former First Lady MIchelle Obama writes that she relied on the wisdom of her late father to survive during the pandemic. “I was just spinning.” (Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times)

When the pandemic forced everyone inside, Michelle Obama searched for ways to cope with an uncertain world.

“You were shut in. You were stuck in your thoughts, and I was no different,” Obama said. “When you have that amount of time alone to think about yourself, your life, your world, for me, I was just spinning.”