A video pioneer in the truest sense, Cathy owned and operated the first video store in Chicago's western suburbs for 19 years. Cathy is immensely proud that her shop stocked the unusual "hidden treasures" of film, with foreign, classics and all Oscar winners crowding the shelves¾each movie box complete with a personal mini-review from Cathy.

During this time, Cathy wrote "Video Views" for the Suburban LIFE newspapers, a column that focused on video releases. That venture expanded to movie reviews, feature articles and celebrity interviews when Liberty Press acquired that company. Ed Harris, Garry Marshall, Fred Willard, Louise Lasser and Jason Alexander are among those Cathy interviewed. Articles about HDTV with Bill Kurtis and a stint as "tea-a drink with jam and bread" at the "Sound of Music Sing-a-Long" are a few of her most memorable projects.

A stint doing feature articles on notable volunteers for the RED CROSS NEWS, several years as a language arts teacher and graduate work in film study at Northwestern University proved valuable background for Cathy in critiquing films and their stars.