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The Art of Letting Go: Embracing Freedom through Kadampa Buddhism

In a world full of stress, attachments,...

Gas line expansion

This is an opinion piece inviting you...

Sheet-Pan Turmeric Chicken and Crispy Rice

by Susan Hanna This delicious recipe from NYT...

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...

House Husbands

by L. G. William Chapman,  B.A., LL.B. People think nothing of painting housewives with the same brushstroke. Women who stay at home to look after...

Argument

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Funny thing about arguments, they can go both ways if you're not careful.  Listening for example to Breitbart...

The Mayflower (1620)

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Can we possibly fathom how it must have been for the swashbucklers to set sail in the Mayflower in 1620 "in...

Not getting along

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. As fortune would have it I am currently reading a very odd book recommended to me by an exceedingly erudite...

In the shallows

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. While on occasion I compliment myself to suppose I possess a degree of polish, it is likely nearer the cold truth that I...

Make America Grate Again

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. A lot of unpleasant things have been rubbing people the wrong way lately.  Considering Brexit, endless wars, democratic...

Consternation

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Although I aim to steer myself upon smooth roads inevitably I happen upon the grit and gravel of consternation....

It all fits!

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Though as a rule the underlying cause amounts to nothing of consequence, I readily proclaim my eruptions of delight with just...

Rising above it all

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. It isn't often I succumb to my better judgement and rise above the straitened circumstances of life. Which...

Yuck!

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. There are two things I don't do well - Third World and children. Interestingly they have certain commonalties,...

Canada Day

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. One naturally becomes introspective about being Canadian on July 1st, Canada Day (or what in my memory was...

Monday with a crash!

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. As popular as it is to record the welcome and accepted advantages of a Friday afternoon and an upcoming weekend,...

Don’t worry, be happy!

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Russian President Vladimir Putin recently exhorted the United States, "Don't worry, be happy!" I doubt he considers the...

Dinner for one

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B.   If one were to listen only to the sentimental jazz tunes from the American songbook of the 1940s there'd...

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