By JOHN KANELIS / johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com

My immediate family and I sat in the middle of one of America’s “battleground states.”

Yes, Joe Biden and Donald Trump believed Texas’s 38 electoral votes were worth the fight. Those votes will go to Trump when the Electoral College meets next month, but not before both sides emptied much of their campaign cash into our TV sets.

They blanketed the air waves with ads. They were incessant. They were harsh. And oh they were frequent.

Well, I am so happy to disclose the obvious: the election is over … and the ads have ceased!

I found the ads annoying. I suppose it was due mostly to the fact that my mind was made up long ago. Still, they were so very repetitive.

I don’t know about you but I am going to cherish the silence.