I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Mr. Roy Tanck, WordPress theme designer and web programmer extraordinaire, for volunteering to help me troubleshoot my beloved Tranquility theme.
With little more than a few descriptive emails he helped me narrow down my issue to my word cloud plugin and helped me test it. What a guy.
Now that my theme is restored my blog feels like home again.  Apologies to any who’ve been inconvenienced by my experimentation with my live production site.