811th Friday Blog Roundup

I like books. Do you like books? One of my books (at least, the e-book version) is on sale today for 99 cents. 99 cents! You cannot get a cup of coffee for 99 cents. You cannot even buy gum for 99 cents. Actually, you may be able to buy gum for 99 cents… It has been so long since I’ve left the house that I’ve forgotten the cost of gum.

You can only mail one letter for less than the cost of my book. If you try to mail two letters, you will be paying more than an entire novel.

I could spend the next 50,000 paragraphs listing all the things that are more expensive than my book. Instead, I’ll spare you and tell you to get yourself Measure of Love.

Pretty please?

Or, at the very least, tell your friends.

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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:

• “Celebrating Ten Years” (My Path to Mommyhood)

Okay, now my choices this week.

World Childless Week was this week, and many people wrote about it. Finding My Plan B – The Black Women in the Room has a post about living her Plan B, which was finding her voice. That plan gave birth to a book and so many amazing opportunities to tell her story and support others. She writes, “During this journey I have come across so many women, especially black and Asian women who have been silenced by the cultural parameters that tell us not to bring shame on the family, not to talk about our problems outside of our home … I’ve been honoured to be in a position to listen and support them on their own childless journeys.”

My Path to Mommyhood celebrated ten years of blogging this week. So much happened in ten years, and she takes us through the journey. I love this line: “It ended with a lot of work, a lot of sadness, but also a lot of hope that finally we could have a life that wasn’t predicated on waiting for a life to begin, but LIVING in the one we have.” As I said to her: “Thank you for always making me think AND making me feel.”

Lastly, The Next 15000 Days has the best conversation stopper when a man drops multiple assumptions into a single question: “No one has ever offended me the way you just did.” Seriously.

The roundup to the Roundup: Measure of Love 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 September 11 – 18) 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.