About Intro: To The First Book; Once Upon A Midnight Summers Dream Autobiography By: Author Ekaterini Patlakis
Some Years ago, I had an idea for a website. I started it, but I could not continue it to have this dream website established! In the Video above here, I had a really bad cold, and I was trying to get over it.
- Dedication, Introduction, and Greek Roots
- Dedication and Family Background: The author dedicates the book to her loved ones, particularly her children, her late grandmother (Giagia Martha), and influential mentors.
- Origins in Kalamata, Greece: The author reflects on her birthplace, Kalamata, describing its historical beauty, traditions, and simple way of life prior to modern technology.
- Parents’ Courtship and Social Expectations: She detail how her parents met traditionally and notes the strict societal expectations placed on women at the time.
- Family History and Childhood Memories in Greece
- Grandparents’ Legacy: The story highlights Papouli Loumbarthos’s exile due to an island vendetta and his move to Kalamata, where he met Giagia Martha.
- Giagia Martha’s Strength and Devotion: Despite being illiterate and an orphan with a hard upbringing, Martha served as the financial anchor and devoted caregiver for her family and her husband’s construction crew.
- Author’s Birth and Early Childhood: Born on July 3, 1959, the author shares childhood memories of playing with friends, rescuing abandoned kittens, traumatic medical experiences, and starting grade school.
- Present Struggles in Missouri and Personal Challenges
- Current Life and Hardship: Transitioning to present-day Missouri, the author describes her grueling job cleaning a factory at night alongside her hard-working husband, George.
- Coping with OCD and Emotional Pain: She candidly discusses her lifelong battle with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and the heavy emotional weight of past family conflicts, including a painful rift with her daughter.
- Aspiration to Share Her Story: Working at the factory serves as her way to fund her dream of becoming a storyteller and completing her writing despite feeling isolated and lacking past support.
- Immigration to America and Early Urban Struggles
- Leaving Kalamata for Chicago: Her family migrated to Chicago, Illinois, leaving behind their comforting Greek roots for a drastically different climate and culture.
- Isolation and Family Friction: As a young child, the author faced isolation in their apartment while her mother worked, experienced severe inter-family hostility from her father’s relatives, and struggled with language barriers.
- Eviction and Resilience: After her father’s family locked her and her mother out of their apartment, a kind Christian family briefly took them in, illustrating early hardships before her mother resumed work as a beautician.
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My Family Wedding Picture.
From left to right, a guest, my husband in the black tuxedo, my stepfather, a friend, me, my mother, and my uncle Dimitious, or Theo Mimi, my mothers brother.
Some Years ago, I had an idea for a website. I started it, but I could not continue it to have this dream website established!
Since then, and a lot of effort of debating should I try to make another go of it, this site was, or is being formed! You can also find me on social media, though, since I have started focusing on my own website,
I do not go so much on there anymore. Instead, all of my years writing and not bringing me any income at all, I have decided to bring all of my content back to my own website! Instead of crickets, I want to fill your hearts with endless heart felt stories. So, I can inspire you to move in the direction that you want. Through this journey,
I am also wanting, to share with you, my own experiences! If you wish, you can make the investments, that you only think, is worthwhile, for your own futures as well!
As I have said, in one on my books: Sometimes, you need to put yourself out there, to the wolves! Sit back, enjoy, and watch, and though, I am truly, quite a bit, camera shy, I will try to make it all, your worthwhile!
In the Video above here, I had a really bad cold, and I was trying to get over it. Since the years, I have dealt with personal problems, family problems, health issues, financial issues, and a lot of fear issues. Sometimes, I am not even sure how and my family has made it, but we have! I tend to say what does not kill you surely puts some dents in you! As I had given up on my dream, for making this website possible.
I tend to remember my business counselor saying that I have perseverance, and she had to explain that to me, because I did not even know what that word meant! I become very discouraged in this life and tend to give up too easily, sometimes!
As I fall. and the harder that I fall, and the mo9re that get hurt and injured, the more determined that I do get in getting back up! I am hoping that you learn something from my experience, and even if, I have helped one person in this life, it would have been well worth it!