Catherine Gigante-Brown

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.

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

TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) has been around for at least five centuries –– there’s got to be something to it.

I sat obediently in her chair atop four ancient copies of the Yellow Pages. Crossing my fingers, I prayed Catholic schoolgirl prayers.

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

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

I’m a firm believer that Tiny Kindnesses can change the world, one sweet, loving gesture at a time.

erotic. intimate. unapologetic.

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

Instead of categorizing people as different colors, I proposed we might begin to think of each other as Earthtones—because our skin colors are based on hues from the earth. Just as the planet is made up of a myriad of shades, it’s still one cohesive entity. We can be thought of as one entity also.