777th Friday Blog Roundup

Life from Scratch is a little over nine years old. Isn’t that bizarre to think? It came out in December 2010. The reason I’m telling you this is that the e-book version is on sale for the next two weeks for 99¢. You can’t even get a gumball anymore for 99¢, and here, the publisher is giving you a whole story.

So if you have missed the old days of blogging or want an easy read to get through the winter months (or, I guess, summer months if you’re in the southern hemisphere), pick up your own copy of Life from Scratch today.

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Stop procrastinating. Go make your backups. Don’t have regrets.

Seriously. Stop what you’re doing for a moment. It will take you fifteen minutes, tops. But you will have peace of mind for days and days. It’s the gift to yourself that keeps on giving.

As always, add any new thoughts to the Friday Backup post and peruse new comments in order to find out about methods, plug-ins, and devices that help you quickly back up your data and accounts.

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And now the blogs…

But first, second helpings of the posts that appeared in the open comment thread last week. In order to read the description before clicking over, please return to the open thread:

• “The Second Wave” (It’s Inconceivable)
• “Paths Forward” (Stirrup Queens) — thank you, Jess!

Okay, now my choices this week.

Searching for Our Silver Lining has a post about gaps in understanding. While the original situation which kicks off the post is a financial one, it also applies to infertility and the assumptions we make about other people. She writes, “The truth is that though all of us are doing the best we can, most won’t venture outside the comfort of the narrative they’ve been given.” And moreover, that there is “comfort behind not challenging the narrative.” Go read this thought-provoking post.

Life Without Baby threw out a topic that got me thinking: baby pictures at the OB/GYN. Which really doesn’t make sense. Pictures in a pediatrician’s office, of course. But unless OB/GYNs are also going to put up artful shots of vulvas and acknowledge the bodies they deal with directly, should they have pictures of babies? I mean… really… babies make zero sense. OB/GYNs spend months or years dealing with your genitalia. Doesn’t that deserve wall space?

Lastly, My Path to Mommyhood is caught off-guard when she has a twinge of sadness seeing baby items she gave away put to use. As she explains, “It’s one thing to give someone things that were supposed to be for your baby that never existed, and to see them in your own home or a restaurant. It’s quite another to see them in their now-native environment, scattered on a toy-peppered couch, or placed just-so in a gorgeous nursery.” So perfectly understandable.

The roundup to the Roundup: Life from Scratch is on sale. Your weekly backup nudge. And lots of great posts to read. So what did you find this week? Please use a permalink to the blog post (written between January 10th and January 17th) and not the blog’s main url. Not understanding why I’m asking you what you found this week? Read the original open thread post here.