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For sale: Brompton e-bike in mint condition

I have a Brompton e-bike in mint...

For sale: Bedroom set

BEDROOM SET $250.  Double bed, dresser, mirror and...

Carleton Place Porchfest–putting young musicians and entrepreneurs centre stage

Carleton Place Porchfest returns August 22 –...

By The Way with Bill Chapman

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Bill Chapman weekly column By the Way to end

After 7 years of loyally contributing to the Millstone, Bill Chapman has decided to end his weekly columns. Bill was one of our first contributors, sending us weekly Friday...

Trust Your Instincts

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. There are many things in life which confound me.  Being caught off balance should not however be the springboard from which to leap...

Maritime Sally

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. It requires little in the way of ambition to lapse into utter lassitude in Key West. Certainly first acquainting oneself broadly with the...
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Quitting Alcohol

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. When I turned fifty years old I quit smoking tobacco.  We were on a charter flight from somewhere...

Raw material

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. "I Wanna Go to Marz" by John Grant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3jQ1_OXBLg Images from the movie 'Weekend'. A story where two gay men...

Ballet is stupid!

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Okay, so I have this girl friend.  She's not my girlfriend, she's my girl friend. Anyway her name...

We had a disagreement

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. In retrospect it is ticklish to know what exactly triggers an argument between two people who are close to...

Quelle est votre perspective?

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. It is a well known incongruity of evidence in a court of law that if five people watch the same...

Early Morning Rain

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. It's 2:00 o'clock in the morning and it's raining. The sound of the rain in the gutters on...

The Retirement Home

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Lately my mother's effect upon me is reminiscent of how Clouseau (the inept and incompetent police detective in the French...

Tabula Rasa

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. According to our good friends at Wikipedia (the internet “Free Encyclopedia”), Tabula Rasa is the epistemological theory that...

Thanksgiving Weekend

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. It's Thanksgiving Weekend. And once again we have lots to be thankful for, lots! As a serendipitous added...

Friends

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Until recently I conceived that I could speak with some cogency upon the subject of friends. Probably I viewed the...

The cycle of life

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. In what we can all hope to be the fulfillment of life's intended cycle, it is an odd...

60 years of change

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. While I have regularly remarked upon the peculiar customs and habits of people who lived before me, I never considered my own...

Counsel of perfection

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. The way most people casually toss about the expression "Counsel of Perfection" you'd think they were talking about something unattainable...

Process of elimination

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Nobody likes computer problems though we've all had them.  What makes them so exasperating is that one hasn't...
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