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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 reason revenge doesn’t work

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Anyone with a ghost of a conscience knows in his heart that revenge is the domain reserved for...

Land Registry Office

 L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. In 1973 (fresh out of law school), as an articled clerk to a prestigious law firm on Sparks Street...

Apples and oranges

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. There is much being pondered lately about bullying, largely in the context of school children, though the concept...

Halloween

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Halloween like so many other commingled pagan and Christian traditions has its roots as a feast which marked...

Procrastination and impatience

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. I am hard-pressed to know which is worse, procrastination or impatience. They are the polar ends of two...

Rainy Sunday Morning

L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. As I sit here on an early Sunday morning sipping my tepid and consequently distasteful black coffee, listening to...

Early morning riders

While I won’t for a moment seek to promote the activity as the product exclusively of clean living (for in truth and in keeping...

Plus ça change!

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. The effect of the passage of time upon others is obvious. Upon ourselves, however, the diminution is less...

Where does the time go!

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. As we round the corner of the third quarter it is usual to muse upon the imperceptible exhaustion...

The Mirror Diet

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. As far fetched as it may be, there was a morsel on the BBC radio this morning about...

Yachting on the St. Lawrence

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. It wasn’t until I took a bus tour on Martha’s Vineyard thirty-five years ago that I came to...

Never wear white after Labour Day

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B.   Apart from what etiquette hard-liners say about wearing white after Labour Day, the truth is that it is...

The Summer of 2012

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. With the recent assault of unaccustomed dirty grey and cloudy skies (and some much needed though nonetheless pitiful...

Sans enfants

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Even given the extended concept of the modern family to include same-sex spouses and, in the vernacular...
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