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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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The move

by Bill Chapman After much bullish expectancy our Realtor emailed us the signed Notice of Fulfillment of Condition which inextricably bound the Party of the...

Election Frenzy

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Whatever people may think about politicians and the political process, there is little that gets them talking more...

Funny how things happen

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. “If i am inclined to suppose that a mouse has come into being by spontaneous generation out of...

Sing in my chains like the sea…

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying Though...

The distraction of materialism

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. It is I confess a small compliment that I can harp with considerable authority upon the coarse subject...

Cursum Perficio (“I finish the course”)

Perfection, as illusory as the topic may resound, is nonetheless the goal of untold characters. It isn’t, for example, the isolated stronghold of the...

Saturday afternoon prose

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. What, I ask you, surpasses the elation and simple pleasure of a relaxed and broadening Saturday afternoon?  Perhaps one...

The Hullabaloo of living

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. I don’t know about you but at times I find the world is an endless uproar, a whirlpool...

Downsizing

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B.    A good deal of my life has been devoted to getting up in the world.  Now I find...

Technology

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B.  At this point in time we have between the two of us, at home and at the office...

The outing

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. I have never been able to shake Samuel Beckett’s disturbing question in “Waiting for Godot” (the two-act play...

People I Really Hate

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Strong word, hate, implying as it does odium, disgust and revulsion. Charged too it is with...

The hard business of thinking

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. No doubt there are those for whom the business of thinking comes effortlessly.  For me, not so.  I find thinking...

In recovery

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Considering the changeable existence each of us leads and the often unwelcome drubbing we endure, I...
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