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Lawn bowls for sale SOLD

Own your own Taylor lawn bowls. One...

Pinehurst: Jane Jacobs and the positive side of Nimbyism

I attended the December 2, 2025 public...

Gingery Pork and Snap Pea Stir Fry

by Susan Hanna This recipe from Bon Appetit...

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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Still ticking

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. My paternal grandfather was hooked on watches. He had something like forty of them when he died. I inherited several -...

Language

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Although President Donald Trump's use of cryptic language is normally understood by even the lowest common denominator, certain...

Banks

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. My professional career - which is to say the bulk of the last forty years of my life -...

Talking to a drunk

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Years ago when I was practicing law - and regularly drinking scotch whiskey in the evenings before dinner -...

Some other time…

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. The lyrics of "Some Other Time" have beguiled me for years. The melody is mesmerizing. Whenever I hear...

What I really mean to say

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. My descent into curmudgeonly conduct has accelerated at an Olympic rate. On the one hand I feel obliged to...

Whew!  That was close!

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. For the past several days I have been reading Stephen King's book "On writing: a memoir of the...

Terra Firma aka “Home Sweet Home”

by L. G. William Chapman I would prefer to be more interesting than I am. I imagine what it would be to have within one's...

To the beach

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. In the seven years we have been wintering on Hilton Head Island I have never once swum in the...

This is the story about the pool

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. This afternoon a young girl in a dripping wet bathing suit danced excitedly about the edge of the...

Private Vernacular

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. It has to be the great conciliation of life's struggle that one finally succumbs to living it as...

City Slickers

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Lately, the Town of Mississippi Mills has been beleaguered by comparatively high-stake controversies involving a modified hydro plant,...

Episode at Whole Foods Market

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. In the context of Canadian grocery shopping, I have discovered that Farm Boy is in the category of...

Drawing the line

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. It is fatuous to pretend we haven't been brainwashed. Years of reading the same stuff and listening to the...
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