Author, blogger
- Author,
Oldest Daughters: What to Know if you are one or have ever been bossed around by one (2017, Rudzik Press)
Currently writing her first novel, a mystery involving two women living in different centuries
Blogger, oldestdaughter.com/consider
Journalist
- )Nationally syndicated youth-advice columnist (“Talk to Us” and “Let’s Talk”/Universal Press Syndicate, Andrews/McMeel
- More than 200 bylined articles, columns and photographs in general-interest publications publications. These include the Kansas City STAR newspaper and magazine, Better Homes and Gardens/Meredith Corp. shelter publications, Woman’s Day, the National Catholic Reporter and Catholic Digest
Professional Memberships
Sisters in Crime (SINC), Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, Northern Colorado Writers
Community Activities
- Formerly, co-founder and president of a non-profit organization headquartered in Kansas City, Mo; developer of a youth-information phone line in Kansas City.
- Community Youth Advocate
International Activities
- Member of delegation to meetings in Moscow and Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) between American women, leaders in their communities, with Soviet women leaders. Purpose of the meetings was to promote peace, establish relationships and exchange experiences.
- Volunteer in Paris, France, for the School and Classroom Program of People-to-People, Inc. to establish connections and exchanges between American and French classes. Later became Acting Director of the program.
Personal life
The first-born of five children, Patricia Schudy was brought up as the oldest daughter to be both a leader and nurturer. Those roles continued in adulthood. She became a wife, mother of five and grandmother of eight while developing careers as a journalist, youth advocate and author. Pat and her late husband raised five children in the midwest before moving to Colorado, where she now resides.
Other interests: Grabbing her camera and heading out to capture the beauty she finds in individuals and nature. She’s also been told she makes really good chocolate-chip cookies.
