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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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You must stay for dinner!

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Cutting short an impromptu social engagement isn't easy.  This is particularly so if your hosts are by nature warmhearted and ungrudging. How...

Threat to our way of life

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. As the Americans approach the upcoming 2016 Presidential Election they begin their next round of intense self-examination.Political conversation...

Caribbean Pasta

Many years ago I traveled to one of the islands in the Caribbean.  It was so long ago that I cannot recall specifically which...

Low light and mahogany

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Although I am fascinated occasionally to read stark criticism of revered principles and institutions (for example Thomas Paine's refutation...

This is what I do

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. After two days of unbroken interference by extraneous elements with my daily routine - a length of time which...

Technology Rules!

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Alexander Graham Bell, if he were to come back from the grave, would no doubt be quite astounded...

The labours and pleasures of rural life

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Those who live on acreage in the townships may look down their noses at those who live in...

Debt

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. I know of no sagacious soul who is ambivalent when pronouncing upon the subject of debt though most condemn it....

Retreat for the decline of my life

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. There are several models of a small vacation community which have had their appeal to me.  I reckon...

The power of persuasion

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. The major of my undergraduate liberal arts degree was philosophy, the study of convictions and ideology but perhaps more...

Return to the beginning

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. All day I have peculiarly been reminded of places and things which, after four decades in Almonte, reflect where...

What’s the news?

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Whenever I visited the late Raymond A. Jamieson, QC the first thing he'd ask is, "What's the news?"...

Life:  It’s a job

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Most people wouldn't consider life to be a job.  Perhaps we should.  After all many of us derive...

Habit

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Habit is the poor cousin of tradition and ritual.  Its career has forever been undistinguished.  At its worst...
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