MINOR HOUSEKEEPING NOTE: When I upgraded this site's blog engine, WordPress, last month, the template that I was using at the time broke like a cheap toaster oven. Recognizing the desperate nature of my plight, as well as my complete inability to deal with it, the good folks at a local nonprofit were kind enough to lend me the WP template that had recently been developed for their site, with the understanding that I'd replace it before their new blog section went live. So, with that blessed day fast approaching, I stopped by Alex King's WordPress template repository yesterday, and picked up the shiny new design you're looking at now.

Many thanks to Alex for maintaining the repository, and to Kimmo for creating the template itself, which won a much-deserved award in a recent WP design contest. And thanks, too, to the nonprofit for the loaner. As we say down home, I'm forever in all y'all's debt.

And now, on with the show. . . .

UPDATE: Yep, the Puppy Blogging images are breaking the design at smaller screen resolutions. Sorry about that. I'll use thumbnails in the future.