A friend, reader and fellow breast cancer rodeo contestant sent me this photo and I wanted to share it with you in case you haven’t seen it, in a nod to Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I’ve always heard the queen had a sense of humor. Lest there be any doubt that thing she did with Daniel Craig during the Olympics Opening Ceremonies would erase it.

Turns out Buckingham Palace isn’t the only thing in London in the pink. Go to the Daily Mail Online article to see what else has a rosy glow these days–and nights.

And speaking of a rosy glow, no one glows rosier than Hollye Jacobs, whose blog The Silver Pen began a couple of years ago with her own diagnosis and treatment for FBC, or F-bomb breast cancer as she calls it. If you or someone you know is dealing with f-bomb pain in the a-bomb, send them Hollye’s way. They’ll find excellent advice, thorough information, and a way to see the silver linings in life even when they’re damned hard to find.

Pardon my French, but FBC really pisses me off.

Here’s a short piece about my own story here, published last January, which was the eighth anniversary of my diagnosis. (You never stop counting.)

Get your mammograms, ladies.

Promise.

Amen.