Award winning author of the Writer's Digest Annual Competition - "Flight to Freedom," inspired by the adoption of a Vietnamese orphan in the 1970's. Also finalist in the Writer's Network of South Florida's contest, "A Dolphin's Tale."Kathy sold her first article when she was 8 years old to the York Junior Dispatch, a publication in her community that encouraged children to write. As she grew older, many of her articles were published. Her fifth grade teacher said "Kathy's favorite thing to do is to write compositions." Kathy was always writing plays for her cub scout group to perform at holidays. She also wrote dialog to be read at social events for some of the groups she belonged to. One… of her specialties was to write a rhyming story tailored to each member of the group by their interests and hobbies. Kathy always had dreams of becoming a Romance Story writer. As a young married, she had time on her hands and wrote many stories, poems and articles. Kathy was a writer/producer for numerous Public Television shows in York, Pennsylvania, including a series on Home Computing, Senior Singles, Creating Stained Glass Windows and others. Kathy wrote a weekly newspaper colmnn for the York Sunday News in the York, Pennsylvania area. She wrote her first children's book "So You're Going to be Adopted" after finding this resource lacking for her family and adopted children. Kathy wrote her next children's book and submitted it to a contest. Not winning any prizes, she decided to self -publish with illustrations done by an artist in Connecticut. It is the story of the McKenzie Family dog and how she became a member of the family. The miscolored Saint Bernard pup paralleled the life of some of the adopted children, not perfect, but wanting to be part of a family. ''Puppy Gets a Family" is available online. Nearing retirement age, Kathy moved to Florida and wanted to leave a legacy for her ten children and seventeen grandchildren . "And Baby Makes 9" is a memoir of her life, through eight adoptions, sponsoring a family of nine Vietnamese, two birth children, fresh air children from New York City and fostering numerous boys and girls throughout the years.