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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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Things I’d never care to admit

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. The so-called underbelly of humanity - that dark, seamy and often vulnerable side - is not exactly topical though...

Serenity

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. When asked what he wanted for Christmas or his birthday or Father's Day, my late father invariably and...

Do we ever grow up?

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. The passage of time and our growth and development are so unnoticeably incremental that we find it hard to fathom...

Do what I can

by  L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Step aside, pusillanimous rogues!  Make way for those hungry for enterprise! I’m all about P&V!  I have no intention...

The Inductive Leap

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. The real danger of an inductive leap is not that there might in fact be a black swan;...

The Gentlemen of Lanark County

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. When I casually shared with others that I had lately composed an article about the "Ladies of Lanark...

The Ladies of Lanark County

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Last evening I was thrown into the mix of about one hundred people at a retirement party.  Apart...

The movies that we know…

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Lately I have been reflecting upon my past.  What intrigues me is the intensity which derives from inconsequential events...

Collecting my thoughts

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. 'Bertrand Russell: One of the advantages of living in Great Court, Trinity, I seem to recall, was the...

Things I like about Mississippi Mills

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. My sensitivity to the advantages of living in Mississippi Mills is fortunately not sparked by deprivation ("You don't know...

Closing the door on the world

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Reverberations abound in life.  I've learned the only way to hear what is in your head is to close...

Fear of the known

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. When it comes to fear, I have quite enough to occupy me with the very real fear I...

Château Laurier Hotel

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. To be precise the hotel of which I speak is properly called Fairmont Château Laurier Hotel, a label...

John Carson (“JC”) Smithson

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. It would be quite impossible to record everything of note that there is to say about JC Smithson....
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