The Anchoress: "Immediately after that I met the anasthesiologist (and liked him), but then the surgeon came in and started marking my breast, and asking me to confirm everything he felt. He used a purple marker to do so and when I used my finger to confirm his marking, I ended up with a purple fingertip! I laughed to myself and felt very consoled, and maybe no one else would find a co-incidentally-Iraqi sympathetic marking to be meaningful, but I did."

Personal, political; vulnerable, indomitable. The Anchoress. A great blog. I like her much better than Ace of Spades. But that's a fine blog, too.