Catherine Gigante-Brown

Food can be more than nourishing; it can be healing.

To the tattoo artist, I was a flesh canvas that she could transform into something beautiful.

TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) has been around for at least five centuries –– there’s got to be something to it.

sex sage. fetish specialist. author.

That’s the thing about being a breast cancer survivor — it’s always there: it never goes away. The scars, the fear that lurks in the back of your mind like a boogeyman. You’re going along nicely, living your merry life, and you’re fine, until you’re not.

The overinflated American work ethic is slowly killing us. It’s constantly pushing us to do more — put in longer hours, check business emails on personal time, take calls from our bosses when we’re chilling in Cancun.

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.

We’ve pieced ourselves back together in a patchwork quilt of ragged emotions. The aftermath of 9/11 wasn’t easy for us, yet it was much easier than for some. People standing 50 feet away from Peter didn’t come home that night; he did.

"I was afraid this thing was going to do me in. But I took a deep breath and decided very early on that I would face cancer on my own terms."

Why, when I'm cool with being a salt-and-pepper chick, does it so clearly unnerve others?