Published Articles

Kathy is a feature writer for Sympatico.ca in their parenting, travel and auto sections.  She blogs for Huffington Post Canada, and is also a regular contributor to Playhouse Disney, ParentsCanada, Dabble Magazine, Oh Baby!, Canadian Families,  and Goodlife. She has also written for Today’s Parent, Canadian Living, Post City Magazines, The Women’s Post,  Metro News and others.

Kathy’s monthly column, Funny Mummy, is available on over 25 parenting websites world-wide, such as www.kiddingaroundtoronto.ca, and www.weewelcome.ca

Kathy is a member of (PWAC) the Professional Writers Association of Canada, and is the only two time winner of their Excellence In Humour Writing Award (2006,2008). She is a member of (TMAC) the Travel Media Association of Canada

Playhouse Disney

• Happy Holiday Treat Tips

Sympatico.ca: Parenting

• 5 Signs You’re Dealing with Judgey McJudgerton
• 7 Ways To Get Your Butt Out of a Rut
• Is Your Child an Odd Duck?
• Technocratic Parenting (Tips for new Mommy Bloggers)
• Board Games Your Kids Can Learn From

Sympatico.ca: Travel

• Visiting NYC With Teens
• Las Vegas, Family Style

Sympatico.ca: Auto

• Is Buying A Car Different For Men Vs Women?
• Are Your Kids Driving You To Distraction?
• Teacher Teacher. How Should Teenagers Learn How To Drive?
• Different View of the Buick Regal

ParentsCanada (Mommy Laugh Track)

• Now Showing: Celebrity Parents
• Portrait of a Frazzled Mom
• Contain Yourself
• Home Tweet Home
• Think Halloween is Scary? Try Having a Child
• Brace Yourself For Breakfast (Excerpt from Shut Up & Eat)

Blush Magazine

• TV or Not TV
• Who’s Watching Baby?
• When Baby Comes Home

Thrive Magazine

• The Frazzled Mom
• (Contd)

Metro News

• Going Green Back To School
• Nintendo – Professor Layton
• Nintendo – Family Cooking
• Nintendo – Rhthym Heaven
• Nintendo DSi: Not Just Games
• Entertaining Education
• Not Everyone Happy About Family Day
• Planning For Party Perfection
• Gift That Keeps on Giving
• Giving Thanks on Mother’s Day
• Recipe for Fitness

Women’s Post: “Now What?”

• Competitive Sports
• Stuck in the Middle

VIEW Magazine

• Mindy Cohn Profile
• Disney Good Deeds
• (continued here)

Kaboose.com

• Road Trip
• Glam it Up!

Oh Baby! Magazine (www.ohbabymagazine.com)

• Mona Lisa Smile

  • (page 1, page 2)

  Men have More Discomfort

  • (page 1, page 2)
  • Great Expectations
  • Travelling with Parents
  • Celebrity Moms and Why They Don’t Really Exist (Book excerpt from The Secret Life of Supermom)

Manor Magazine

• Get Organized For Fall
• Bewitching Kitchens

Tampa Bay Baby

• Work It, Work It

Melange Magazine

Fruits that Seduce

Today’s Parent Toronto

• Its a Zoo Out There

Cool School Supplies

• (Part 1, Part 2)

Day Trippin from Toronto

• (Part 1, Part 2)
• Birthday Survival Games
• Camp Learn-A-Lot
• Veni, Vidi, Video-Free: “I came, I saw, I got the kids away from the t.v.”
• Themed Birthday Parties
• Pre and Post Partum Baby Primer
• Survivor 401 with Kids
• Bandages for the Arts Cuts
• Birthday Party Guide
• Once Upon a New Room
• Singles Guide for Parents

Canadian Living: Magazine

• Christmas Letters: You Don’t Say

Canadian Living: Online

• 20 Funny Secrets from a Stay At Home Mom (Journey Book Excerpt)
• Why Doesn’t Dad Help Out (Journey Book Excerpt)
• Interview with An Ex-Supermom
• Surviving the Holidays With Children
• New Year’s Resolutions: Theirs, Not Mine
• Pal-O-Mine’s (My Real Valentines)

Today’s Parent

• Dinner Diaries
• Arsenic Hour
• Lost Libidos
• Cleanup in Aisle Five
• Numb and Number
• DVD’s Are Satan’s Toys

Thrilled Versus Proud

• Travels With My Parents

City Parent

• Leapfrog Your Kids Back to School

Homemakers: Online

• 8 Secutive Fruits

Babbling Bananas: Online

• Numb and Number
• Things I Didn’t Want To Know
• Work It, Work It
• Christmas Letters

Mississauga News

• Educational Toys (and cont’d)
• Moms Are Champs
• Mom Addicted to New Tech Toy
• Mother Always Knows Best
• Inside Voice Not So Quiet
• Snips and Snails and…
• It’s Time For Friends to Know
• Everyone is Busy Being Busy
• School Rules
• The 12 Days of Christmas – For Men
• Saving Your Summer Sanity
• Moving Might Be the Answer
• Resolve to Make Change, Not
• Things I Didn’t Want to Know
• Look Cool to Be Cool
• Bad Enough When You’re Young
• Hellooo…Is Anybody Listening?
• Surviving the Holidays
• Big City Versus Burbs
• It’s Just Natural…

Inside Mississauga

• The Real Life Mississauga
• Green Acres
• Surviving the Holidays

Family Resource

• FamilyResource.com

The Good Life

• Decorating Naturally
• Technology & Back to School
• True Romance: Mythbusting
• Hosting for the Holidays
• To Sleep Perchance to Dream
• The Shaw Must Go On
• Bikini Ready in 6 Weeks
• Green Christmas
• Give The Gift of Words
• Canadian Lit Chicks
• Searching for Yummy Mummy
• Joining the Hockey Nation
• Stratford Festival – 55 Years Young
• Spas
• Foodie

Riverwood Garden Park

• (Part 1, Part 2,)
• Stroller Fitness

Debbie Travis: A Woman on a Mission…in Oakville

• (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3,)

What Moms Really Want for Mother’s Day

• (Part 1, Part 2,)

Parent-Preneurs: Juggling Family Life & a Business

• (Part 1,, Part 2, Part 3,))

Pet Detecting: Searching Around for the Purrfect Pet Companion

• (Part 1, Part 2, , Part 3,)

Planning Your Child’s Birthday Party Can Be Fun

• (Part 1, Part 2,)

Camp Days!

• (Part 1, , Part 2)

Time Crunched?

• (Part 1, Part 2,)
• Time Saving Recipes

Nuts over nuts!

• (Part 1, , Part 2,, Part 3,)
• Home Decor Trends

Spring Cleaning: scrubbing, sorting…scrapping

• (Part 1, Part 2)

Valentine’s 101: Tips for the Totally Clueless

• (Part 1,, Part 2:)
• Weighing in at the Gym

Christmas Collectibles

• (Part 1, Part 2)

Calgary’s Child

• Shhh – I’m on the Phone

Women in a Home Office

• Quick Tips for Surviving the Summer With Kids (Newsletter article)
• Networking 101: Quick Tips (Tele-meeting)
• Working From Home With Kids (Newsletter article)

TimeFinders Coaching

• How Can You Tell