Happy June

12. June 2009 by Marie Pinschmidt.

June 11, 2009 Happy June June is busting out all over. Children are busting out to the swimming pools, the day camps, and hopefully family vacations. But be careful ─ many years ago I read that family vacations were the main cause for divorce. You’ll have to analyze that according to need. Today’s statistics may be different.  I’m hoping for a stress-less summer, now that my manuscript for “Spanish Moss” has been edited ad nauseam and ready to send to the publisher. I’m sure all authors try to avoid the nightmare of picking up their latest book and finding a stupid error that was overlooked. I’m sure you have found it very frustrating and disrupting when you buy a book that is ripe with errors or incorrect information. A writer can actually continue to edit a book for years and still find a word or phrase that could be better used. Eventually, one has to let go of their babies, mistakes and all, and pray we won’t need to hang our head in shame. UPDATE FROM BAGHDAD. Since my last blog, I’ve continued e-mail conversations with my Baghdad friend, learned much more about her family and what her life is like compared with Americans. For instance, I sent her a copy of “Man on the Balcony” and the following is what she wrote after waiting for weeks for the book. I love the way she expresses herself in English. It should make us feel ashamed to complain about the little things in our lives.  “My dear friend, let me tell you about my adventure to find the post office……its not a joke….when I lost my patient while I was waiting for the post man to knocking my door I decided to take a car and go to find the post office by myself. It was a horrible view…..the building of the post office in aaedamia was all dstroied because of the wars…the man there told me it became in another street…..when I reached…there were so many people… that small building was not only for the post office but also for passports and identifys…so it was crowded with so many people I couldent even saw my feet…The officer asked me so many questions and then told me to come back tomorrow. When I told my friend about that she laughed and said “You are realy a big fool dreamer…wake up….you don’t know what realy happening out there…they were not officers but robbers”.I will go tomorrow and try again. My dear friend, I am so happy about our friendship…helping me to find my way…..maybe that thing was just a simple thing for you but for me was like the only piece of wood I have got to hang with it while I was drown every single day in a dark and unjustic big ocean. Please don’t fly away like all my dreams do. God bless you. Wafa. She never did receive the package. She will send me the address of relatives in Jordan and I’ll send the book to them for her. Imagine.  If you enjoy hearing about this lady, leave a comment.  I wish all of you a happy summer. Did anyone try the recipe – and would you like me to post more New Orleans recipes?  Click on comments at the end of a post and leave a message. I’d love to hear from you.    Marie  

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