Catherine Gigante-Brown

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.

Wrinkles or lifelines? Chunky or curvaceous? The choice is yours.

I saw my present mother-in-law in a whole new light the first time she held my newborn son.

Why do we venerate individuality in adults but condemn it in children?

Upset you lost your keys? Try losing your breast. Pissed off about missing that train? Try missing your son’s 8th grade graduation because of a horrific infection from fluid buildup in the previously-mentioned missing breast. See what I mean? It kind of puts life into perspective.

If the odds of getting cancer are like Powerball, why couldn't I be a scratch-off millionaire?

A new U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation on mammograms ensures more women will die of breast cancer.

" Sure enough, the doorbell rang one early June day and there she was: curvy, seductive body, smooth black skin, bright blue eyes."

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

Re-imagining the cervix, preserving the earth, facing breast cancer a whole new way…Annie Sprinkle’s wisdom abounds. “Life is a performance art piece,” she said...