Catherine Gigante-Brown

I dreaded putting him back on Concerta in the fall but I knew I had to. Or did I?

"Remember, this isn’t just happening to you, it’s happening to moms everywhere. It’s not your fault — "

I’m boycotting you until you start recognizing breast cancer survivors like me by carrying mastectomy bras.

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.’”

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.

Makeup and I have always had a love/hate relationship: I love it; it hates me.

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

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

herbalist. shiatsu practitioner. healer.