Catherine Gigante-Brown

The Ultimate Counter Culture Diva

It sounded too good to be true: comfortable, attractive bra inserts for breast cancer survivors like me. I got on the computer, checked out their website, and immediately put in for one.

Anne Lamott's Operating Instructions wasn't your typical cutesie baby fare. It was raw, real—and unabashedly funny.

I realized my father was from a generation that never said those three little words. He was saying he loved me without them. But I didn't realize it then.

A midtown Manhattan studio was recently the site of liberation-both on and offscreen-when Shenshean

herbalist. shiatsu practitioner. healer.

Instead of categorizing people as different colors, I proposed we might begin to think of each other as Earthtones—because our skin colors are based on hues from the earth. Just as the planet is made up of a myriad of shades, it’s still one cohesive entity. We can be thought of as one entity also.

Alexa is like a nosy neighbor: She’s always listening. That’s how she can respond when you ask her to do something. So, when you’re getting busy on the kitchen counter — Alexa’s listening. When you’re telling Capital One the last four digits of your SSN — Alexa’s listening. And who knows who else is.

I try. I really do. But whenever I attempt to embrace my husband Peter’s Cuban culture, I always screw up.

Who says feminists don't love alpha males and cooking?