Well, my Boyfriend/Best Friend/Husband/very patient tutor/fabulously intuitive computer guy helped me to see where I went wrong on my previous attempts to create links in my last posting.
Apparently, it helps if you have something to 'insert' your link into. See, my links actually were there - we just couldn't see them. What I did wrong was, after typing a title for each bookmark and bolding it to make it look pretty - I put my cursor on the next line in the text box (without pasting the url there or typing a title for it ) then copied the url into the 'link' box. So, when I went to view the post there was nothing for the program to display as the link. What I needed to do was choose how I wanted the link to appear, type or paste that info into the bog, highlight that text and then use the 'Create Link' option.
NOW I know!!
Thanks Billy!