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Not Mama’s Breakfast

Breakfast is my favourite meal of the day, perhaps because it is associated with fond memories of my maternal grandmother. All the grandkids called her Mama. I’m not sure how that came about, but it’s what we called her. Anyway, I'm feeling nostalgia and decided to write a short post. Mama made the most delicious breakfast that, to this date, has never been surpassed. It was a simple breakfast of fresh-baked bread, sliced thick and slathered with salted yellow butter,…

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15 Years Ago

15 Years Ago by Daniel Brinneman (Daniel Brinneman) What were you doing 15 years ago? This is a response to Daniel's post. Let's see how much I can remember. This domain, islandinthenet.com, is about 11 years old, but I've been blogging since before 2003. I moved my blog from Blogger. Com to Tumblr.com to WordPress.com to Posterous. I mapped each one to a domain, khurt. com. That was 14 years seven months ago. In 2006 I registered the islandinthenet.com domain…

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