Catherine Gigante-Brown

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

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

The santero sent us off with a shopping list of ite

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

At first, I felt like an abandoned ten-year-old, dropped off at a remote summer camp—with the extra added attraction of no cell phone reception or Wi-Fi. I thought the hardest part of the weekend was going to be picking out a robe. Boy, was I wrong!

In the photograph, my great-grandmother, Margarita Cirigliano, is sitting at a small table on the front porch of the family home in Borough Park, Brooklyn.

erotic. intimate. unapologetic.

8. Educate, don’t fixate.

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