948th Friday Blog Roundup

Measure of Love is on sale for 99 cents from now until the end of the month. 99 cents. Even candy bars cost more than 99 cents. And in this case, you get a whole story. 6 to 8 hours of entertainment, depending on how quickly you read.

It has been a long time since my last book, and I’ve been playing with a new story for a few years. I’ve put it aside because it is so hard to wrap my brain around anything right now with the twins leaving. But maybe this is the kick I need to pick it back up again.

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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:

• “Pronatalism and Anesthesia” (Finding a Different Path)

Okay, now my choices this week.

PocoBrat asks if grief makes you mean. She is becoming irritable with people after the loss of her dog, and she writes, “I don’t know if some B.S. detector switch has flipped in my brain or if it’s business as usual and grief has nudged out extra emotions making them conspicuous to me. Either way, I’m finding it difficult to live with this version of me.” Grief burns through energy, and patience is an action that often requires a lot of energy. Sending peace of heart.

Lastly, Infertile Phoenix writes about feeling your feelings. She talks about what happens when you don’t let out your feelings. And she explains: “If I frequently cry quietly… If I occasionally cry loudly… If I use my words to tell a person why I am mad, sad, or disappointed… If I journal honestly… If I blog vulnerably… It gets out. The feelings get out. And they don’t stay stuck.” I needed to read this post this week.

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 June 9 – 16) 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.