1021st Friday Blog Roundup

The kids left a few days ago to return to school, and I still feel empty. Winter break is deceptive because it looks long on the calendar but moves so quickly that it feels over in a second. At least, it does to me.

It was lovely. It felt too quick. And now it is back to a quiet house and talking to Beorn and missing them.

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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:

• “Accepting a Childless Life Should Not Be a Crime” (Childless by Marriage)
• “Shifting Mindscape” (The Barreness)
• “Collective Waiting” (Infertile Phoenix)

Okay, now my choices this week.

The Barreness processes the California fires. She is the keeper of many family photos, and she writes: “To help me work through the constant onslaught of sadness, fear and grief from the fires and the election I started scanning all the images. I can share them with my cousins and niblings. That way I would not be the only one to hold them and there will be other locations to view them/save them.” The story about the book pages raining down on the yard was haunting.

Lastly, Finding a Different Path writes about an ultrasound picture that ended up in her work mailbox. She realized things would only change if she spoke up. She writes, “I explained that ultrasound pictures are triggering even though they are EVERYWHERE (facebook, emails, CHRISTMAS CARDS, profile pictures, ugh), and that we have a lot of people (the WORLD has a lot of people) that saw that and it opened up a wound.” Luckily, the conversation went okay, and the person took her words to heart. As she writes: “how will anyone ever know unless we talk about it?”

The roundup to the Roundup: Missing the kids. 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 Jan 10 – 31) 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.