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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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Power

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Power is such a persuasive word. In spite of its seeming clarity it plainly engenders notions...

Matutinal Retrospection

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Who among us at one time or another has not woefully groaned and rolled over in...

Men and boys and the price of their toys!

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B.  It would be unimaginable to address the battalion of options available for discourse upon the facetious...

The Gentleman bien rangé

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Life is a delicate thing.  Very often, however, we treat it with less regard than it deserves.  It...

Lost in translation

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. I won’t say it is exclusively a hazard of aging, certainly not; but for those of...

Now I get it!

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Although it may sound flippant to say it, “Que sera, sera!”  This seemingly bland and axiomatic idiom is...

Reclaiming one’s territory

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. I find no matter how philosophical I prefer to be, coming home from a vacation is...

What seems to be the problem?

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Often we stew about life and its problems.  Some of us - myself included I regret to...

The art of trite conversation

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Whether it is the Canadian vernacular or merely the absence of intelligence, casual conversation among locals...

Dinner and a movie

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. What I ask you is a more wholesome, frugal and consoling project than dinner and a...

Travel by train

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. As outlandish as it may reverberate, our project to rejoice in the triumph of my partner...

Social animals

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. I have come away from last evening’s small private dinner party with the blunt reminder that whether or...

The Con

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B.  Lately con artists have woefully figured rather vividly in the morning news, stories about real estate...

The colour blue

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. When it comes to those pesky “security questions” on the internet, if I am prompted to...
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