As anyone who has followed this blog for any length of time knows, I’m not especially adventurous when it comes to changing its “skin.” This isn’t because of a special sense of attachment I feel for whatever template I’m using — I just fall into a rut, and I don’t have the confidence to customize.<\/p>\n
Did I say confidence? Who am I kidding? I meant skills….<\/p>\n
This evening, driven by some madcap desire for adventure [sic], I surfed to the admin pages and clicked on another theme, thinking I could preview it. There is no skill in clicking and choosing a template.<\/p>\n
To my surprise, however, the costume wasn’t part of a dress rehearsal: my blog was immediately redressed. And so I clicked through almost every theme on offer, forcing this blog through costume changes that would make a seasoned Cirque du Soleil performer dizzy.<\/p>\n
In the end, I returned twice, thrice, finally again to this theme, “white as milk.”<\/p>\n
Its minimal look somewhat reflects my minimal enthusiasm for posting these days, no? But maybe its milky whiteness will challenge me to write here more often: that blank page, just waiting to be marked up…!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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