Catherine Gigante-Brown

"I was afraid this thing was going to do me in. But I took a deep breath and decided very early on that I would face cancer on my own terms."

I try. I really do. But whenever I attempt to embrace my husband Peter’s Cuban culture, I always screw up.

“It’s almost as though this niche was patiently waiting for us to find it.”

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

Why do we venerate individuality in adults but condemn it in children?

At the New York City release party for Dayna Kurtz’ latest, Rise and Fall, my friend Nadia leaned over to me and whispered, “Why the fuck

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.

If the odds of getting cancer are like Powerball, why couldn't I be a scratch-off millionaire?

Mindel and Maria were young teenagers when the horrors occurred—but they remembered the tiniest details with crystal-clear intensity.