896th Friday Blog Roundup

I marked a bunch of posts earlier in the week, but I stopped reading after the shooting. It is hard to focus. Hard to not feel heartsick every time you go online. Hard to read the news. Hard to not read the news.

There are really no words.

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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 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. To read the description before clicking over, please return to the open thread:

• “Blogjubiläum Nr. 6” (Elaine ohne Kind)

Okay, now my choices this week.

Infertile Phoenix points out how a phrase can be turned around to mean something entirely new. She plays with the words “left behind” turning them from something done to her into a space where she is taking action. And feeling empowered in the process.

Hopelessly Infertile and Surrounded by Fertiles unpacks how even the most open-minded, wanting-to-understand man may not have a deep understanding of women’s bodies. And how there are a lot of men making laws pertaining to women’s bodies who aren’t trying to understand. She writes: “This is why women’s voices and the diversity of experiences within those voices are so damned important.” Yes.

Lastly, The Uterus Monologues writes about why we should talk about a pregnancy before the end of the first trimester. She points out the problem with waiting to tell anyone until 12 weeks: “You didn’t tell people out of some vague notion that this very thing might happen, and now it has you realise you’ve unwittingly cut yourself off from any sympathy or understanding. It keeps you quiet and confounded. It feels a lot like shame.” No, loss shouldn’t have to happen in silence.

The roundup to the Roundup: Heartsick. 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 May 20 – May 27) 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.