About Me

I've discovered Blogger! I am older than God...but decided in my "Youth, Part II," to become a writer, and will soon exchange the word "writer" for "author." Let me explain....When I was ten years old, I received a book, entitled, Pollyanna, for Christmas. Way back "then," at least in our family, we received one gift and an orange or apple. I was absolutely delighted with a book of my very own. I smelled it, I held it to my heart...and then, I read it, over and over and over. At that time, I declared I was going to be a writer. I grew up, married, had a family, and had very little time to write, if you don't count the creative excuses I wrote for my children when they were absent from school. "Please, Mom," they would beg, "just say I was sick; don't write a two-page summary about my throwing up six times." When at last they were all in school, I struck out to the local newspaper with articles entitled, Life, Love and Laughter. Erma Bombeck beat me to the top, but my children supplied the fodder to my long-running column in several newspapers.

Over the years, I carried the story of "Annie" around in my head. In 2003, I bought my first computer. After learning to turn it on, and convincing myself there was not a little man behind the glass censoring every key I hit, I began writing my book, The Story of Annie Chase. "Now, I'll have it published," I said naively to myself. After many rejection slips, I almost gave Annie to the garbage heap. One last try brought success (you see, you should never stop trying). It will now be published sometime next year. Please read about it at www.behlerpublications.com/authors. It will be under Author Titles, scroll down - down a little more - there, there it is! It's a book about friendship, loyalty, a secret and Washington, D.C. Thanks!