Catherine Gigante-Brown
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Catherine Gigante-Brown Articles
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.
Read...Being a little bit chubby is better than being a lot dead.
Read...We’ve pieced ourselves back together in a patchwork quilt of ragged emotions. The aftermath of 9/11 wasn’t easy for us, yet it was much easier than for some. People standing 50 feet away from Peter didn’t come home that night; he did.
Read...8. Educate, don’t fixate.
Read...Why, when I'm cool with being a salt-and-pepper chick, does it so clearly unnerve others?
Read...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.’”
Read...My husband and I agreed: raising a child with an independent spirit who made decisions for himself was a good thing.
Read...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.
Read...Why do we venerate individuality in adults but condemn it in children?
Read...Who says feminists don't love alpha males and cooking?
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