Catherine Gigante-Brown

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.

"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."

sex sage. fetish specialist. author.

Being a little bit chubby is better than being a lot dead.

The hell with his elaborate metaphors and rhetorical phrases. Iambic pentameter is cruel and unusual punishment.

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

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.

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

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

“It’s almost as though this niche was patiently waiting for us to find it.”