Virginia Postrel is showing her roots. Her South Carolina southern roots, that is. Here she has reached her forties and now she is talking about her Lasik surgery, the surgical corrective for myopia. You'll need to scroll down the page.

This procedure has always been interesting to me. I have worn glasses since second grade, moving from farsighted to near-sighted. Unlike many of my peers, these days I see wonderfully at close work like sewing, but can't see a highway sign until I am within twenty feet of it without glasses. But I have seen too many reports that the surgery overcorrects, leaving patients using reading glasses rather than distance glasses, which would be a poor trade in my case. I'll stick to my bifocals.