Catherine Gigante-Brown

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

You learn a lot about people when you live in their home. The Taylors seemed to lead a joyless, Spartan existence.

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.

Being a little bit chubby is better than being a lot dead.

Candida Royalle pretty much invented couples erotica. She made it socially-acceptable. Respectable. The women in her films looked like real women and had real, comfortable female bodies. And her movies actually had stories. Good stories. She hired her friends—adult legends like Annie Sprinkle, Veronicas Hart and Vera, and Gloria Leonard — to create Femme films too.

I’m sure you’ll find it a delicious and well-stocked place. There are just a few rules

The santero sent us off with a shopping list of ite

All bets were off after 9/11. In a twisted way, it proved to me that worry was fruitless. No one ever saw the terrorist attacks coming.

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

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