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744th Friday Blog Roundup

I ended up needing to go back into my old blogspot website this week, which I haven’t been in since building this space in 2009. It felt like I was strolling through a ghost town, except it wasn’t really a ghost town since all of that old content migrated over here. For three years, I wrote there, and for ten years I’ve written here. Triple the length of time that I wrote over there, but that space feels so much like home still. I’m not sure what that means.

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Speaking of looking backwards, Measure of Love is on sale for the next two weeks for only 99 cents. It’s the same price on every e-book platform. So… grab a copy for the beach? For a friend? For someone who wants to hear about the olden days of blogging?

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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:

Okay, now my choices this week.

Inexplicably Missing has a post about the outer calm and the inner turmoil. She made it through Mother’s Day weekend, but then found herself emotional when she started to pack up her house for a move. She writes, “As we dis-assembled our furniture and took art off the walls, it felt as though we are completely pulling apart our lives. Which actually was the whole idea, I guess… It’s just I’m starting to get cold feet about it all.” It’s about crumbling internally so you can build something new.

Risa Kerslake also has a post about Mother’s Day; though this year she’s pregnant. In the past, she has always had a moment where she cries in the bathroom, and this year she didn’t. She describes that change in Mother’s Day: “There’s a lot of joy and gratefulness and indescribable love that comes with it, but every Mother’s Day, I allow myself those moments in the bathroom.”

Lastly, CD1 Again ties off her blog with a goodbye post. She goes all the way back to 2008, so it’s bittersweet, even if she hasn’t been blogging as of late. She writes, “Thank you to everyone who ever stopped here and said hi or offered support when I was at my lowest, so sure I was worthless because my uterus didn’t work. It meant more than I can ever convey here with just words. I looked back and the anguish I read in old posts just hurts, but it helped shape who I am now. I’m leaving all of the posts here for anyone who needs them.” Go read the whole post and say goodbye.

The roundup to the Roundup: Spending time in the past. 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 May 10th and 17th) 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.

2 comments

1 Lori Lavender Luz { 05.17.19 at 10:20 am }

I can still see your old blog. I remember when you went to the new masthead, an image of a moon and a castle, I think? I remember when you came here. I remember feeling so welcomed by one blogspot to another 🙂

2 loribeth { 05.24.19 at 6:36 pm }

I was Googling your blog on my phone a while back & wound up on your old blog site. Time warp!! 🙂 (Has it really been 10 years since you moved over here??)

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