Technical difficulties
Things have gone a bit wonky with the blog, as you can see.
It started when I told the online crew that the search function wasn't functioning. They opened up the hood, poked around and unfortunately must have pulled the wrong wire. The text is still here and I believe you can still leave comments, but the blog looks even more basic than it did before. We'll get it back to normal soon, if not better than normal.
In the meantime, enjoy the soothing expanse of white.

A journalist for more than two decades, David Allen has been writing a column for the 

I noticed this the other day, but I thought it was my husband's computer. Macs and PCs often show screens differently, so I just shrugged and read, anyway. I like your frames better than this, so I hope this gets better soon. :)
KT
Interesting to note.....my aol browser shows it in its intended state, but if I use explorer it's fubar!
[My kingdom for an AOL browser. -- DA]
It's good to see that things have been restored without your having to resort to AOL.
Hi! Thanks for your great article on Elegant Ethyl. She died the year I moved to Ontario so I missed her performances. I wanted to hear it on your blog, but I can't seem to see how to do that. Help!
Ruby
[It's attached to my column online, not to my blog ... as I'll tell Ruby in an e-mail. -- DA]