Catherine Gigante-Brown

Like if she steals from you — cash or a boyfriend. Or does something illegal she wants you to be a part of — or lie about. I draw the line at felonies (sometimes even misdemeanors) and you probably should, too.

I immediately developed a hot-and-heavy girlcrush on the wild, wacky, brash, candid, feminist, rubber-faced comedian—and you should too.

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

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

I realized my father was from a generation that never said those three little words. He was saying he loved me without them. But I didn't realize it then.

The heartbreaking saga of a 14-year-old Black prostitute who was murdered in cold blood by her (maybe) pimp on Christmas Eve in 1900 Savannah.

"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."

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.

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

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