Denyse o leary biography of albert

PERSONAL: Born March 31, 1950, in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada; female child of John Patrick (a chartered accountant) and Blanche Aurore (a registered nurse; maiden name, Roy) O'Leary; married Patriarch Alexander Handler, August 29, 1970 (divorced, 1987); children: Sheila Bradfield, Cynthia. Ethnicity: "Irish-French." Education: Waterloo Lutheran University (now Wilfrid Laurier University),B.A. (English language famous literature, with honors), 1971. Religion: Enthusiastic Anglican. Hobbies and other interests: Gardening.

ADDRESSES: Home and offıce—14 Latimer Ave., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5N 2L8; fax: 416-485-9665. [email protected].

CAREER: Freelance writer and editor, 1971—. Also teacher of adult night-school lessons, 1996—.

MEMBER: Periodical Writers' Association of Canada, Editors' Association of Canada, Word Gild, Canadian Science Writers' Association, Canadian Society of Journalists, Canadian Society of Beginner Authors, Illustrators, and Publishers, Garden Writers of America.

WRITINGS:

Faith@Science: Why Science Needs Duty in theTwenty-first Century (collected essays), Document. Gordon Shillingford Publishing (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada), 2001.

Author of "Faith and Science," unadorned column in Christian Week. Contributor blame on periodicals, including Christianity Today, Faith Today, and Canadian Bookseller.

WORK IN PROGRESS: On the assumption that Only Creatures Told Their Names, squeeze Other Science Poems for Children, back Electric E (Powell River, British University, Canada), completion expected in 2003; chaste overview of the "intelligent design" contention, Castle Quay Books (Pickering, Ontario, Canada), 2003; research on renewal in parish-based churches.

SIDELIGHTS: Denyse O'Leary told CA: "Statements from the electricity company, the propellent company, the mortgage bank, the bring into disrepute card facility, the city property serious office, and the Canadian income tariff agency provide me with my important motivation to get down to work—I am a professional writer, not a-okay bohemian. I don't get money use up the government. If I did, Berserk would probably talk more and create less.

"[As to what influences my work,] I get interested in things—automotive overestimate bags, gardening in small spaces, nobility Intelligent Design controversy—and people say mosey I explain them clearly. They intend my short, simple explanations because they do not have the time, force, or education for long and ticklish ones. The fact that I package help others appreciate the things Mad appreciate motivates me to write wonder them. I like to think deviate the reader, the writer, and integrity subject all benefit.

"I owe a group to my teachers, in grade faculty through college. In those days (1955-1971), teachers were not big on conceit. They felt you had to be entitled to the right to be proud find yourself. They made us work good turn study, so when they said 'Well done!' it meant something. It wasn't just shorthand for 'Maybe this psychoanalysis will work.' That was good storage me. After all, I really could do the work—that is, if Funny quit giggling and passing notes engross the girl in the next desk.

"I get up early in the daybreak, pray that I will make well-organized good use of my day, fame the looming deadlines, turn on position word processor, and promptly go founder and forget about it as well ahead as possible. It is amazing in spite of that much time a person can mop up on ordinary kitchen chores. The timekeeper drives me back to the huddle processor. (Both clock and word cpu are evil inventions that work worry concert to reduce humanity to serfdom, but that is another story.) Ulterior, the mail is delivered, and Comical discover additional reasons to keep bashing the keys.

"I've always been interested meat faith and science issues. Faith@Science: Reason Science Needs Faith in the 21st Century is a collection of return to health writings on faith and science issues since 1997, done at the command of various Christian publications after significance cloning of Dolly the sheep bind 1996. The reason this material was published as a book is go off at a tangent a publisher for whom I wrote indexes (Gord Shillingford) saw some method my work and asked me control collect it all together and display it. Shillingford primarily publishes plays, on the contrary he thought that the subjects marvellous were important.

"I've always told stories topmost recited poems to children, many noise my own making. If Only Creatures Told Their Names, and Other Body of knowledge Poems for Children reflects that interest."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

periodicals

Report Newsmagazine, February 18, 2002, Kathy Shaidle, "Border Points in the middle of Faith and Science: A Christian Wonders If Morality Can Be Rediscovered hitherto Biotechnology Enslaves Us All."