I'm back!!!!

Giddy with relief. Haven't been able to access my accounts on blogger.com for 5 days. They've introduced a beta version, linked to gmail, and it wouldn't let me log in, or when it did, my accounts had vanished.

I thought I might have lost my entire blog archive. I had nightmares about not being able to update my calendar in the crucial lead-up to Migritude's premiere.

For the last 5 days, I've been shooting frantic emails at blogger.com's Help address, only to receive rote referrals to their help topics. I've begged my web designer to switch me to another blog program - her response was:


I think more patience and being more persistent with Blogger will give you more positive results. Getting locked out of your car doesn't mean it's time to buy a new car.

Two minutes ago, I finally got a real response, from what seemed to be a real person, at blogger.com, directing me to an alternative login page.

My obviously delusional sense of online security has been yanked abruptly out from under me. Chapters from Margaret Atwood's brilliant book, The Handmaid's Tale, where all the women in North America wake up one day to find all their accounts and assets frozen and inaccessible, are scrolling inside my brain.