Rick Springfield is going to be at a local outdoor, concert area---the Fraze, in Kettering, Ohio.

I missed him two years ago, and I'm going to miss him, again, this year.

I will probably be working at the restaurant. How I love his music. "You know I wish that I had Jessie's Girl..." "I've done, everything for you...You've done nothing for me...." Oh, how I love it.

I'm not doing anything for myself. I'm working at a restaurant, with a story to tell the world and almost a Masters degree, and I'm cleaning plates, and wiping tables and I do not know how I'm going to get anywhere. I do not know. I do not know how anything is ever going to change.

Things change for people. There are success stories, and I have to be one of them. I am destined to be one of them. I have wondered what I was put on this earth for, since my mother died. I knew and have known, I was here for her. I was here for her, to make her life worth living, and I don't know now what I am here for. I gave my life to education, I feel, and I have nothing---NOTHING, to show for it, except Teachers Retirement, which I want to pull but people are telling me I shouldn't. There has to be a way. There has to be a way. Someone, somewhere has got to see this potential, though I know it to be more, than potential. I have More than potential.

Right now, I'm a novice at everything except educating. I'm even a novice at writing, it feels. Even though it may be tough, I'm going to make this book worthy of reading.

This book is a monumental part of my life and everything that I write about, in it, relates to what I'm going through, right now. Everything I'm going through, relates to it. It's like circle.

I interviewed with a neighboring district the other day, and I was turned down. They're going to get a copy of the first three chapters of my book, when those chapters are adjusted. Every school district that has turned me down, is going to know who they turned down. They turned down a special person, who loves education and children, and has an interest that is "deeply rooted," as my favorite administrator, said of me. He wrote me a beautiful recommendation, along with a couple students and a collegue, and I was turned down, many times now. If I had a $1,000 for everyone that has turned me down in my area, I would have a cushion right now.

But, those places will know and they will be sorry. People have reminded me over the years, "It's nothing personal," but oh, it is---for me. I tried to believe, for a long time, that it wasn't anything personal, but it is. It is.

Thank you for reading.

And, if Oprah, or George Clooney or Rick Springfield reads, I love you!!!! Oprah, George, we need to get this done, and Rick, if you're reading, and you have any pull whatsoever, I would appreciate it.

Cindy