940th Friday Blog Roundup

I lost my blue Twitter checkmark yesterday. It was not a huge loss for someone who only uses Twitter to check if other sites are down or if people see the same bug. But it snipped one of my final threads to my work at BlogHer, keeping only the relationships because the site no longer exists. I was offered verification many years ago, and they made it very easy. So… goodbye, little blue mark.

It’s kind of weird to miss a job, but I really miss BlogHer.

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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:

• “No Kidding Lessons from a Book About Fear and Danger” (No Kidding in NZ)

Okay, now my choices this week.

The Next 15000 Days has a post that begins with a beautiful poem. She captures a sweet moment at a pool. She writes, “It felt so good to smile at the child. For a whole decade, I was so heartbroken that I couldn’t smile at anyone. Especially not a child.” And I love the lesson learned at the end of the post.

Lastly, No Kidding in NZ unpacks a recent visit with her teenage niece — one who is also navigating health issues. I think a lot of times when we think about parenthood, we think about those baby/toddler years. But teens are part of the package, too. She writes, “But it was a good reminder too that it is not easy at all to be a parent. And I will admit, after they left yesterday I enjoyed curling up on the couch with my ipad, reading a book, then having a bit of an afternoon nap on a warm autumn Sunday afternoon.”

The roundup to the Roundup: Goodbye, little blue checkmark. 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 April 14 – April 21) 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.