I am an out of work special education teacher, and I have a story to tell. I have a story to tell the world, and I hope to be on the Oprah stage this season. I'm going through one of the roughest times in my life. I gave my all to the education field, and I am practically broke. My mother taught for 25 years, and in the middle of her 25th year, was fired on grounds of incompetence. But, she wasn't incompetent. She was intelligent and a wonderful, wonderful teacher, and I have wanted since I was young, for her name to have honor. She was a strong, strong, strong, mighty woman. She was a little bit short---5'2" maybe, and she was a little plump. She had dark brown hair and light, tan eyes. There was yellow around the pupil and then light brown around the yellow. I used to try to memorize her eyes. She developed colon cancer when I was 16 and died when I was 19. She was amazing, and this needs to be told. I want a movie to be made and I want a book published, which I've worked on since 1998. It still has a ways to go, maybe an overhaul, but I want it to be published. I know who will play everyone, or should play everyone involved, for the movie. George Clooney will be the mean Superintendent. Charlie Sheen will be the nice Assist. Superintendent. Julia Roberts will be the woman that took my mother's place and said my mother didn't know what she was doing. I'm not sure who will play the mean assistant principal or the principal that couldn't and wouldn't discipline. I want Richard Gere to play this eventual guidance counselor that didn't seem to want to be part of my mother's downfall.  Cameron Mathison, from All My Children and Dancing with the Stars will play "Josh," a guy I met at college, who broke my heart and spirit, in real life. He said things and did things that seemed totally, totally uncharacteristic of himself, the person I thought I knew. (And it is liberating, to say even that). In the book, though, there is a reason, and it is a good reason, and there is a happy ending. I don't know who will play my mother, though, they might not look like her. It will be hard to come up with someone with her features. I don't know who would play me, "Leslie." I haven't been able to figure that one out. I was in the 2nd grade when she was "fired" and it had an indelible effect upon me. I have a degree and almost a Masters in Special Education, and I can not get a job. I am going through "hell." I am working as a waitress and never waitressed in my life and never thought I'd be doing it. It took courage, I believe, for me to go into education, but I did. It was and is, "in my blood." And I think about the degree, the teaching license and EVERYTHING, that has happened in my life, as I clean table and scrape off food from plates. I'm going through "hell," but somehow I'm going to make it. I have to be on Oprah, and that's the only thing that keeps me sane and from throwing a salt shaker at the restaurant wall. Oprah, George Clooney---I need you.