Catherine Gigante-Brown

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

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

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.’”

"Bring over a meal—and leave. Breakfast, lunch or dinner, from soup to nuts. And coffee. Plenty of coffee."

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

What Stephen didn’t know –– what no one knew –– was how weak my knees grew when I pushed through the swinging doors of the ICU.

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

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.

8. Educate, don’t fixate.

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