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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 value of money

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. To countenance the expenditure of money naturally calls for some justification especially when the recommendation is...

Dealt a bad hand

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Dear reader, you may share with me the privilege of having witnessed the estimable conduct of...

“We are all failures – at least the best of us are” (J. M. Barrie)

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Even if it is your good fortune not to have suffered greatly in life, I suspect...

The Dutch Uncle

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Some truths are by nature unmerciful and therefore hard to withstand though their communication to the...

Withering Heights

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. When at last one has ploddingly attained the dizzying pinnacle of one’s career there is recognizably only one...

Clothes maketh the man

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Being adjudged by one’s appearance is nothing new. Nor is it something which most people would...

The entrepreneur

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. The expression “entrepreneur” normally applies to rather common and generally unimpressive undertakings. Historically for example it pertained...

Bleak winter day

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Even unpremeditated consideration of life in mid-January in Canada must inevitably include an allusion to the...

Admitting you’re wrong

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. There is little that contends with the chore of admitting you’re wrong.  Such an oily exercise to...

Anticipation

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. It is difficult to escape the constant urging to “live in the moment”.  The popular adage -...

The shopping spree

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. There are some for whom the daily habit of counting and weighing one’s wealth is highly...

Father Christmas

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. For someone like my father (a man who traditionally has the appearance of being socially distressed...

Home for Christmas

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. One must adjudge that for Canadians in general Christmas is the Big Scene on the year’s...

Nobody’s listening and nobody cares

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. As predisposed as each of us may unsurprisingly be to view our own personal dilemmas in...
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