Who am I? There is no mystery to me because I have been willing to share my life in various bios that are on the web. I was born on a hot summer night in Dallas, Texas in the home of my parents. It was the year of the big stock market crash and the beginning of the Great Depession of the last century. My first five years were filled with sickness and it was as if I wanted to check out. However, I am here to say I am most happy I stayed around because after I left my childhood my life became quite changeable and interesting. After leaving Texas Women's University (then it was called Texas State College for Women), I lived in Houston and worked for the Navy Department. One day I read a small article in the newspaper about recruiters from the U.S. State Department were in the city interviewing clerical for overseas work with the Foreign Service Division. I applied and was offered a job as a code clerk. I had no idea what that would entail, but accepted and after 3 months training in Washington D.C. I was on my way to Paris, France and the American Embassy there. My job? To encode and decode secret messages. After my tour in Paris, I transferred to Tokyo where I met and married the father of my children - we had three sons. I had an education during the course of my marriage because my military husband was away two-thirds of the time and I learned how to maintain my own decision-making, rearing three sons the way I wanted, and the logistics of moving from place to place. Perhaps I have been a gypsy at heart during those years. After 17 years I returned to the work force and well, life became even more enriched. After 23 years, I divorced and married my late husband. He retired in 1985 and in 1986 we moved to Washington State and here I am. I am a seeker of truth. I became a writer in 2001 when my husband passed and now have four books in print. The first was A Christmas Awakening, followed by Secrets of the Magdalene Scrolls, an Independent Publishers Book Awards winner 2006, Mary Magdalene, Her Legacy an Independent Publishers Book Awards winner 2008. My most recent book is Awakening the Genie Within, a semi-memoir and self-help book for anyone. For more information about me, check me out on www.magdalenescrolls.com and also www.myspace.bettyejohnson.com