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Author Ariel O'Suilleabhain began her writing path at the Ladue News where she wrote a column for children and parents while simultaneously doing advertising ads and parenting her own children. Before that she enjoyed a full-time position at the Clayton School District nearby just to name a few through time. Her substantial scholarship and gratitude for her fresh start goes to the Webster Groves Chamber of Commerce and the Business Community of Webster Groves, MO. and for that as she was able to go to Webster University in Webster Groves, MO. through a partial scholarship that the business community gave to her after her essay-submission for that and through that graciously obtained for professional business reasons a B.A. degree in Journal Author Ariel O'Suilleabhain began her writing path at the Ladue News where she wrote a column for children and parents while simultaneously doing advertising ads and parenting her own children. Before that she enjoyed a full-time position at the Clayton School District nearby just to name a few through time. Her substantial scholarship and gratitude for her fresh start goes to the Webster Groves Chamber of Commerce and the Business Community of Webster Groves, MO. and for that as she was able to go to Webster University in Webster Groves, MO. through a partial scholarship that the business community gave to her after her essay-submission for that and through that graciously obtained for professional business reasons a B.A. degree in Journalism and Media-Communications.

During that same time period and while she attended university, she regularly wrote and often wrote other newspaper columns and Feature Stories and was a frequent and feature-story author and stringer for The Webster-Kirkwood Times, The St. Louis Suburban-Journals and a number of other prominent St. Louis, MO. newspapers. Most of that came about because of her ongoing faith in God and a lot of good old-fashioned hard work. And finally for some encouragement from a few special mentors such as Ellen Fudderman of New York who at the time wrote feature stories for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and went on to do so for 25+years, before she became the present-day editor of The Jewish Light. Much gratitude also goes to her first Journalism teacher, Professor Donald Corrigan of Webster University.

While working on her career and going to college full-time, author Ariel O'Suilleabhain dreamed of publishing a number of stories for children and young adults which she wrote on the side. At the time, she was inspired by her two small daughters and her son. But once her three dear birth children all grown up and bringing up families themselves elsewhere, Ariel began to focus again on her blessed pen. She enrolled at Southeastern Missouri State University and began to study writing and to do some teaching and some assistant-teaching there while earning credits toward her Master's Degree in English. She herself highly favored the Japanese and Chinese Faulkner scholars. It seemed that God had her best place and interest at heart.

Her studies at the university and during offered some support at the Faulkner Center and under the auspices of the also author and now retired founder and southern gentleman Dr. Robert Hamblin which was a rewarding and dear delight. It seemed that scholarly academic grace had made and brought the fount of enlightened literary inspiration to burst upon the glory of pen and ink again. At the same time, memories of how her once job at the Clayton School District where she started out when her middle daughter was only eighteen-months old flooded her thoughts at times and made her feel nothing but gratitude about how those small beginnings had led to her present life joy as an author of y.a. and child picture books.
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Her father, whose Irish share-cropper parents had named him after the Irish author Gerald Griffin who had a brilliant career, but nothing to attach him to professional writing lavished the fact that his own first daughter had become a professional author instead. This kind, loving and wise man whose dear love for his own wife inspired him to encourage the career of his wife also encouraged his daughters to become all God wanted them to be. Ariel's mother both excelled and matched to his delight the career of Ariel's father and as her parents had a best-friend relationship and were high school sweethearts, the marriage and a healthy home atmosphere blossomed.

During the 1990's women's issues were vogue. Therefore, the author under her birth name before the day of her present pseudonym wrote numerous essays about women and even once won an award for her articles in The Women's Voice. ...more

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“All of it had paid off and now wastelands became mikvah and water she drank and grew light as it bubbled up by her and healed her and proclaimed her each word the truth and the joy and the treasure she always had been from the beginning.”
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