Catherine Gigante-Brown

herbalist. shiatsu practitioner. healer.

The overinflated American work ethic is slowly killing us. It’s constantly pushing us to do more — put in longer hours, check business emails on personal time, take calls from our bosses when we’re chilling in Cancun.

raunchy renaissance woman. multimedia artist. probably a slut.

"Sometimes David wore his hair spiked like a cockscomb. Others, he wore it feathery like a baby chick. He wore his Mohawk to summer camp (exchanging encouraging head chucks with another older camper who sported one, too) and even to Vacation Bible School—no judgment there."

The Ultimate Counter Culture Diva

From New York to LA, this lady knows a good story.

8. Educate, don’t fixate.

BCBs are loud and proud and refuse to go down easy. And quietly. We have things to say. We have things to teach. We still have life to live. And damn it, we are and we will. With one breast. With no breasts. With reconstruction surgery.

The hell with his elaborate metaphors and rhetorical phrases. Iambic pentameter is cruel and unusual punishment.

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.