Catherine Gigante-Brown

erotic. intimate. unapologetic.

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

"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."

raunchy renaissance woman. multimedia artist. probably a slut.

8. Educate, don’t fixate.

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

sex sage. fetish specialist. author.

The Daily News quoted one painted lady as saying, “People come up to us sometimes and say what we do is disgusting,” she said. “But what is disgusting about the female body? They shield their kids sometimes, and I think, ‘Kids come from the female body.’”

Were you going to run into that cute guy John Williams on the way home? Would you see Anne Marie by the lockers and sort out what to do for the weekend? It was hit-or-miss, and that was the beauty of it. The breath-holding chance of it all. Now, our kids’ friends are as close as a keyboard stroke away. It’s too easy.

Alas, I am the lone female in a house full of men. Only two men, but they take up a lot of space.